Gnoll Estate Country Park
Gnoll Estate Country Park near Neath in Neath Port Talbot is a country park and heritage landscape of over 200 acres centred on the eighteenth-century Gnoll House demesne, one of the most remarkable designed landscapes in Wales. The estate was developed from the 1730s by Sir Humphrey Mackworth and his successors as an elaborate landscape garden incorporating cascades, waterfalls, ornamental ponds, a walled kitchen garden and ornamental plantings that were among the most ambitious landscape garden schemes in eighteenth-century Wales. The Gnoll cascades, fed by a series of ponds on the hillside above the house, create the most visually dramatic feature of the landscape, the water descending through a series of falls and channels designed for visual and acoustic effect. The park is managed by Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council and is freely accessible, providing one of the most historically interesting and scenically attractive country parks in south Wales.