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Three Cliffs Bay

Three Cliffs Bay, otherwise Three Cliff Bay, is a bay on the south coast of the Gower Peninsula in the City and County of Swansea, Wales. The bay takes its name from the three sea cliffs that jut out into the bay. Pennard Pill, a large stream, flows into the sea in the middle of the bay. The beach is an important asset for locals and visitors and routinely qualifies for Blue Flag status. Dogs are allowed on the beach all year.

Located at 51.5682, -4.11516 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Gower Peninsula, Bays of Swansea

Penrice Castle

Penrice Castle is a castle near Penrice, Swansea on the Gower Peninsula, Wales.

Located at 51.5742, -4.1707 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Castles in Swansea, Grade I listed buildings in Swansea, Country houses in Wales

Oxwich Bay

Oxwich Bay is a bay on the south of the Gower Peninsula, Wales. Its landscape features sand dunes, salt marshes and woodland. Oxwich Bay includes a 2.5-mile long sandy beach, accessible from the village of Oxwich. It is a popular spot for swimming and watersports including diving, sailing, water skiing and windsurfing. There is a public footpath along the cliffs from Oxwich Bay, around Oxwich Point, and to Port Eynon Bay. Buses run every couple of hours between Oxwich and Port Eynon.

Located at 51.5658, -4.14679 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Gower Peninsula, Bays of Swansea, Sites of Special Scientific Interest in West Glamorgan

Oxwich Castle

Oxwich Castle occupies a position on a wooded headland overlooking Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula, Wales, UK. Although it may occupy the site of an earlier fortification, this is a castle in name only as it is a grand Tudor manor house built in courtyard style. A product of the peaceful 16th century, Oxwich was built by Sir Rice Mansel to provide sumptuous accommodation. He gave it a mock military gateway complete with family coat of arms.

Located at 51.5546, -4.16791 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Castles in Swansea, Mock castles in Wales, Grade I listed buildings in Swansea, Country houses in Wales

Cefn Bryn

Cefn Bryn is an ancient ridge in Britain. It is a 5 mile long Old Red Sandstone ridge in south Wales, in the heart of the Gower Peninsula, in the City and County of Swansea. Local people colloquially refer to it as the "backbone of Gower", as it protrudes from surrounding limestone. The highest point on the ridge is the second highest point in the peninsula, offering panoramic views of the surrounding country and seas. The swathes of grassland around the ridge are known as Cefn Bryn Common.

Located at 51.58, -4.14028 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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5th-millennium BC architecture, Archaeological sites in Swansea, Bronze Age Britain, Buildings and structures in Swansea, Geology of Wales, Megalithic monuments in Europe, Prehistoric sites in Swansea, Gower Peninsula, Hills of Swansea, Sites of Special Scientific Interest in West Glamorgan, Stone Age Britain, Stone Age sites in Wales, Ridges of the United Kingdom

La Charrette

La Charrette was for several decades the smallest cinema in the UK. It closed in February 2008. A tiny, 23-seat venue, sited in a back garden in the town of Gorseinon, near Swansea, 'La Charrette' (French for 'the carriage') was built from a disused railway carriage. With flock wallpaper and hand-operated curtains, 'La Charrette' began showing films in 1953.

Located at 51.583, -4.102 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Media and culture in Swansea, Cinemas in Wales, 2008 disestablishments in Wales, 1953 establishments in Wales

Parc Cwm long cairn

Parc Cwm long cairn (Welsh: carn hir Parc Cwm), also known as Parc le Breos burial chamber (siambr gladdu Parc le Breos), is a partly restored Neolithic chambered tomb, identified in 1937 as a Severn-Cotswold type of chambered long barrow. The cromlech, a megalithic burial chamber, was built around 5850 years before present (BP), during the early Neolithic.

Located at 51.5885, -4.11271 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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5th-millennium BC architecture, Buildings and structures in Swansea, Cadw, Megalithic monuments in Europe, Prehistoric sites in Swansea, Gower Peninsula, Stone Age Britain, Stone Age sites in Wales

Parc le Breos

Parc le Breos was a great medieval deer park in the south of the Gower Peninsula, about eight miles (13 km) west of Swansea, Wales, and about 1+⁄4 miles north of the Bristol Channel. The park was an enclosed, oval area of 6.7 miles in circumference, covering about 2,000 acres and measuring 2 ½ miles (east–west) by just over 1 ¾ miles (4.1 km by 2.9 km).

Located at 51.5883, -4.1125 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Gower Peninsula, High Middle Ages, History of Wales, Landscape design history, Parks in Wales