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{{Infobox UK place
| country                     = Wales
| static_image                = Grade II listed St Anne's Church, Tonna - geograph.org.uk - 4942356.jpg
| static_image_caption        = St Anne's Church in Tonna.
| coordinates                 = {{coord|51.676|-3.772|display=inline,title}}
| official_name               = Tonna
| welsh_name                  = Tonnau
| population                  = 2,499
| population_ref              = (2011 census)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/tonna-w05000590#sthash.aFdFwjlO.dpbs|title=Ward population 2011 |accessdate=12 April 2015}}</ref>
| unitary_wales               = [[Neath Port Talbot]]
| lieutenancy_wales           = [[West Glamorgan]]
| constituency_westminster    = [[Neath (UK Parliament constituency)|Neath]]
| constituency_welsh_assembly = [[Neath (National Assembly for Wales constituency)|Neath]]
| post_town                   = NEATH
| postcode_district           = SA11
| postcode_area               = SA
| dial_code                   = 01639
| os_grid_reference           = SS774990
| councillor1                 = Leanne Jones
| party1                      = Labour 
| module= [[File:2024 Wales Neath Port Talbot Community Tonna map.svg|240px]]<br />Map of the community
}}
'''Tonna''' ({{langx|cy|Tonnau}}) is the name of a village and [[Community (Wales)|community]] in [[Neath Port Talbot]], Wales, located to the north-east of [[Neath]].

[[Image:Ivy Tower near Tonna in 2007.jpg|left|thumb|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]].

==Toponymy==
Once mainly [[agricultural]] fields, the name derives from the [[Archaism|archaic]] [[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''tonnau'', meaning lea or [[grassland]] and not, as is sometimes assumed, the modern [[Welsh language|Welsh]] for "waves". Some areas of [[pasture]] remain.

==Government and politics==
The [[electoral ward]] of Tonna falls within the [[parliamentary constituency]] of [[Neath (UK Parliament constituency)|Neath]].  The ward consists of a small built-up area of Tonna village to the northwest with rest of the ward consisting of woodland and pasture. Tonna is bounded by the wards of [[Aberdulais]] to the north; [[Resolven]] to the northeast; [[Pelenna]] to the southeast; [[Cimla]] and [[Neath North]] to the southwest; and [[Cadoxton, Neath Port Talbot|Cadoxton]] to the west.

In the [[2017 United Kingdom local elections|2017 local council elections]], the electorate turnout was 43.7%.  The results were:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Candidate
!Party
!Votes
!Status
|-
||Leanne Jones ||Labour||327||Labour hold
|-
||Lee Bromham-Nichols ||Plaid Cymru||305||
|-
||Kathryn Minshull ||Conservative||107||
|-
||Nick Williams ||Independent||83||
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=2831920 www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Tonna and surrounding area]

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[[Category:Vale of Neath]]
[[Category:Villages in Neath Port Talbot]]
[[Category:Communities in Neath Port Talbot]]
[[Category:Electoral wards of Neath Port Talbot]]
[[Category:Towers in Wales]]
[[Category:Neath]]