COED-FRANK, a hamlet, in the parish of CADOXTON, hundred of NEATH, county of GLAMORGAN, SOUTH WALES, 2 miles (S. W. by
W.) from Neath, containing 825 inhabitants. The name signifies a forest, which in former ages was much infested by wolves;
and tradition reports that, after a desperate battle fought in this neighbourhood, great numbers of those animals came
down and devoured many of the slain. This hamlet commences at the month of the river Neath, and extends in a north-eastern
direction until it meets that of Dyfryn-Clydach. A branch of the Neath canal passes through it, nearly parallel with the
river, and joins the Briton-Ferry canal, which connects the rivers Neath and Tawy below Swansea; and by means of a ferry
across the former, near the termination of the canal, a distance of seven or eight miles from Swansea to the eastern part
of the county is avoided. The Crown Copper-works, belonging to a company at Birmingham, and affording employment to about
one hundred persons, are situated here. This hamlet separately supports its own poor: the average annual expenditure is
£199. 11.