Tonna, Neath

Tonna
St Anne's Church in Tonna.
Tonna is located in Neath Port Talbot
Tonna
Tonna
Location within Neath Port Talbot
Population2,499 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid referenceSS774990
Principal area
Preserved county
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEATH
Postcode districtSA11
Dialling code01639
PoliceSouth Wales
FireMid and West Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
Councillors
  • Leanne Jones (Labour)
List of places
UK
Wales
Neath Port Talbot
51°40′34″N 3°46′19″W / 51.676°N 3.772°W / 51.676; -3.772

Tonna (Welsh: Tonnau) is the name of a village and community in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, located to the north-east of Neath.

Ivy Tower

Immediately between Tonna and the adjoining parish of Llanilltud ("Llantwit-juxta-Neath") is a cottage once occupied by the Welsh-born 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's rugby union team is Tonna RFC.

  1. ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 12 April 2015.