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west Wales and the south-west

Harbour Way

A4241

Also runs asAfan Way
  • Water
Plan a drive around it
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16 measured points along the stretch, threaded approximately — the dots are where the A4241 was scored, and the dashed line between them is not its shape. Numbered pins are the stops listed below.
Length
8.9 km
How curvy
Gently winding
9% curviness — Easy curves rather than corners.
Curvy metres
795
How these scores are measured

Curvy metres is curviness multiplied by length: how much genuine curve this road actually gives you, rather than how tight its tightest corner is. It is the number that separates a mountain pass from a housing estate.

Speed limits along it

What is on the poles along this stretch, by share of its length.

  • 30 mph15%
  • national limit (70)85%

Speed limits are inferred from road class for 100% of this stretch — nobody has mapped a limit on those parts of the A4241, so the national limit for the class is assumed.

Runs past

  • Port Talbot·town·420 m
  • Margam Village·hamlet·620 m
  • Margam·suburb·10 m
  • Taibach·suburb·10 m
  • Aberavon·suburb·820 m
  • Velindre·suburb·1.0 km

Distances are approximate: the closest this stretch is known to come.

Worth stopping at

  • Pin 1 on the map:The Twelve Knights

    Pub · 50 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • real ale
    • toilets
    • hours listed
    • phone
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 2 on the map:Railway Club

    Pub · 100 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • hours listed
    • phone
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 3 on the map:Red Lion

    Pub · 120 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • hours listed
    • phone
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 4 on the map:Blanco's Restaurant

    Restaurant · 160 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • food
    • phone
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 5 on the map:Afan Ales and Fine Wines

    Pub · 280 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • hours listed
    • phone
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

  • Pin 6 on the map:The Lord Caradoc

    Pub · 320 m from the road, approximately

    • parking
    • real ale
    • hours listed
    • website
    Open in Google Maps ↗

The places and their tags are from OpenStreetMap.

No Twistly drives use the A4241 yet. Plan the first one.

Near the A4241

Photographs taken within about a kilometre of this stretch, from Wikimedia Commons. They are near the road — we have no evidence any of them shows it.

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