Battles

For a small valley and former mining village, Cwmaman certainly produced some talent. From the globally-renowned rock band Stereophonics to Alun Lewis (1915-1944), regarded as one of Britain's greatest Second World War poet. Born during the darkness of the First World War and raised during the social and economic unrest of the 1920s and 1930s, Lewis wrote about his struggles with the world of his youth and the war. Visit the plaque marking his childhood home and St. Joseph’s, which features in his poem The Mountain Over Aberdare. Adjoining the church, on the site of Shepard’s Pit, is the Cwmaman Woodland Sculpture Trail: a series of beautiful wooden sculptures commemorating the role of the coal industry on life in the valleys.