Tonna

Tonna
Glamorgan
Location
Grid reference:	SS774990
Location:	51°40’35"N, 3°46’23"W
Data
Population:	2,499  (2011)
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.

Ivy Tower

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.

Outside links

• www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Tonna and surrounding area