This list of references is incomplete, and is being continually updated to provide due attribution to various items on this web site and to provide further reading.
- Swansea University Library.
- Port Talbot Historical Society.
- Cwmavon Then & Now by A. Leslie Evans, Port Talbot Historical Society.
- In The Valley Long Ago, industrial growth and the struggle for religious freedom in the Afan Valley in the first half of the nineteenth century, by John Rowlands 1853, translated from the Welsh original by Graham Hughes 1985.
- How Green Was my Valley by Richard Llewellyn 1985n (1939), ISBN-10: 0684825554 ISBN-13: 978-0684825557.
- How Green Was my Valley (1941) movie starring Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O’Hara, ASIN: 6302640504.
- Place names of the Afan Valley by Alwyn B.Jones ISBN 0 907117 481,
- Sad Flows Old Afan, a collection of poems by Alan Davies.
- A brief history of The Parish of Llanfihangel Ynys Afan by Greville James.
- The Brickworks of Wales on the industrialgwent web site.
- The Cinema Treasures web site.
- The Glamorgan Archive site ( https://glamarchives.wordpress.com/ )
- Ceri Jones recipes: https://cerijoneschef.com/welsh-cawl/
- Wales Today, July 24, 2004: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/britains-sickest-villagers-we-love-2430902
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rice_Mansel_Talbot
- The Afan Fisheries by Ivor Lewis.