A VILLAGE abandoned when its residents fled a moving mountain has been left a ghost town.

The tiny village of Pantyffynnon was deserted because of fears whole families could be buried under landslides.

Now all that is left is crumbling buildings in the eerie town which was once full of life.

Hundreds of villagers were evacuated in the 1960s because the mountain in the Swansea Valley was moving - it is now empty and full of buildings slowing being reclaimed by nature.

The former community bustling with houses, shops and a church is now silent and is not even recognised on Google maps.

Former residents say they no longer know the place they grew up in.

Rosalyn Davies, 69, who grew up in the village, said: "There was a whole community here; this was my home and always will be my home.

"There must have been around 100 houses lost in all.

"It's an awful thing; you not only lose a house, you lose a home. I had happy times here; it was a fabulous place to grow up as a child.

"When I walk along today memories come flooding back but at least they are happy memories. It is also very sad as well. We lost a community. People scattered.

"Today it's a ghost village; It's quite eerie, as I remember it as it was. It's sad, so very sad. It was a very happy community. Very close-knitted.

Rosalyn spoke of a landslip which careered into one of her neighbours' houses.

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She said: "I can remember hearing a noise and walking out the front door and seeing a double decker bus reversing back down the hill and all the mud was coming to meet it.

"We were fortunate that we didn't have a gate in the wall at the back of our garden, next door wasn't so lucky and it went right through the house.

"It took a long time to clean it all up; the road was closed for quite a while."

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Buildings in the village were demolished as a result of the landslide and the area was closed off.

Another former resident Gareth Roderick, 79, said: "There was a quarry and a spring on the hillside behind the house a few doors away and the pipes became blocked and the water came down.

"It caused the mountain to come down and it pushed the house over. It came very quietly.

"It had been squeezing against the house all morning. There was no noise at all. It then came down over the road.

"There was a lorry parked outside moving the furniture out and that was buried.

"I wasn't scared; I have lived here all my life and knew what was going on. There was a family living next door to us who had only been here a few months and they scarpered."

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