Oxwich Bay

Oxwich Bay is a bay on the south of the Gower Peninsula, Wales.

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Type: Bay
Description: bay
Also known as: “Orwich Bay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oxwich Castle and Church of St Illtyd, Penrice.

Oxwich Castle

Castle

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Oxwich Castle is a Grade I listed castle which occupies a position on a wooded headland overlooking Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula, Wales. Although it may occupy the site of an earlier fortification, it is a castle in name only as it is a grand Tudor fortified manor house built in courtyard style.

Church of St Illtyd, Penrice

Church

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The Church of St Illtyd is a Grade II* listed building in the city and county of Swansea in south Wales. It is close to Oxwich village, on a site overlooking Oxwich Bay and reached by the Wales Coast Path.

St Nicholas Church

Church

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oxwich and Penrice.

Oxwich

Village

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Oxwich is a village on the Gower Peninsula, in the city and county of Swansea in south Wales. Oxwich is part of the small community of Penrice which extends from the village of Horton to Oxwich Bay, and as of 2001 recorded a population of 454 inhabitants.

Penrice

Hamlet

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Penrice is a village and community in Swansea, Wales, on the Gower peninsula. It had a population of 451 as of the 2011 UK census and the community includes the villages of Oxwich, Oxwich Green, Slade, Little Reynoldston, Horton as well as Penrice itself.