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The BP refinery also operated a sports and leisure club. When the refinery closed in 1998, the leisure facilities were acquired by Llandarcy Park Ltd. They redeveloped the site to a new health and fitness club, a restaurant and hotel. Llandarcy hosts the Virgin Active Health & Racquets Club,
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Llandarcy was chosen as a site for a refinery because Neath Rural District Council was the only council in the country at that time which could guarantee the requisite daily volume of water required by the refinery. This was supplied from the recently constructed reservoir at
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formerly the Glamorgan Health & Racquets Club, which has a range of indoor and outdoor sports facilities, and the Llandarcy Academy of Sport, which has one of only two indoor grass training fields in Wales.
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could be transported by sea from the Middle East was incidental. Llandarcy was the source of the fuel pipeline PLUTO (Pipe Line Under The Ocean) which supplied fuel to the
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and worked as a doorman, lorry and bus driver, died of lung cancer on 17 June 1990, at the age of 49, and took his secret with him to the grave.
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The disused land from the scaling down of the oil refinery has found a number of new uses. Part of the site is now occupied by offices of
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is an interested party in this development, which seeks to develop the site as an "urban village" in the same vein as the
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St. Modwen Properties PLC Investor Site Visit - 1 October 2007. Brownfield renewal in the South West and Wales region
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BTC General Oil Spill Response Plan: Appendix F, Potential Impacts of Oil Spillage to an Onshore Environment
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The hunt for the Saturday Night Strangler | Life and Style | The Guardian, Saturday 18 January 2003
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Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council - Press Release - Llandarcy Park Ltd 19.02.2001
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in 1973. Their killer's identity remained a mystery until 29 years later, in 2002, when
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refinery built between 1918 and 1922. The village is near junction 43 of the
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Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council - Development of Sites and Premises
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Assessment and Restoration of the BP Llandarcy Refinery Landfill 25 May 2004
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occupied by the refinery is being re-developed into a new village called
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www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Llandarcy and surrounding area
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bombing in 1940. At its peak the refinery was a major employer in
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murders of schoolgirls Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd
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in the United Kingdom. It was originally designed as a
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Neath
Neath Port Talbot
county borough
Wales
first oil refinery
garden village
BP
M4 motorway

Ystradfellte
Swansea docks
crude oil
D-Day landings
Luftwaffe
South West Wales
Crymlyn Bog
Site of Special Scientific Interest
William Knox D'Arcy
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
murders of schoolgirls Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd
DNA evidence
South Wales Police
Joseph Kappen
Sandfields, Port Talbot
Natural Resources Wales
brownfield land
Coed Darcy
The Prince's Trust
Poundbury

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