Tonna
| Tonna | |
| Glamorgan | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SS774990 |
| Location: | 51°40’35"N, 3°46’23"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 2,499 (2011[1]) |
| Post town: | Port Talbot |
| Postcode: | SA11 |
| Dialling code: | 01639 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Neath Port Talbot |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Neath |
Tonna is a village in Glamorgan to the north-east of Neath, of which it is effectively a suburb. Once mainly agricultural fields, the name derives from the archaic Welsh language tonnau, meaning grassland and not, as is sometimes assumed, the modern Welsh for "waves". Some areas of pasture remain.
Immediately between Tonna and the adjoining parish Llantwit-juxta-Neath is a cottage once occupied by the engineer and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who had arrived at his theory of evolution independently of Charles Darwin, with whom he later corresponded. Eventually Wallace and Darwin jointly presented the first paper on Natural Selection to the Linnean Society.
The village has a rugby union team, Tonna RFC.
References
- ↑ "Ward population 2011". http://www.ukcensusdata.com/tonna-w05000590#sthash.aFdFwjlO.dpbs. Retrieved 12 April 2015.