Gileston
Gileston is a small Welsh village near West Aberthaw in the Vale of Glamorgan on the coast of South Wales.- Type: Village
- Description: village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Silstwn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gileston Manor and St Tathan’s Church.
Gileston Manor
Building
St Tathan’s Church
Church
St Tathan's Church is a medieval church in St. Athan, in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is dedicated to Saint Tathan. The building's origins are probably 12th century, but there is little evidence of any 12th-century fabric remaining.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Athan and Llancadle.
St Athan
Village
St Athan is a village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales. The village and its parish church are dedicated to Saint Tathan. The church dates to the 13th–14th century, though an earlier church was dated to the Norman period.
Llancadle
Hamlet
Llancadle is a rural village south-west of Barry near Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan, in Wales. Llancadle is located near the international airport for Wales, Cardiff International Airport.
Fonmon
Hamlet
Fonmon is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. It lies just off the B4265 road to the northwest of Font-y-Gary and Rhoose on the western side of Cardiff Airport. Fonmon is situated 2 miles east of Gileston.
Gileston
- Category: locality
- Location: St. Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.39374° or 51° 23′ 38″ north
Longitude
-3.41158° or 3° 24′ 42″ west
Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)
Open location code
9C3R9HVQ+F9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Gileston” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Gileston”
- Dutch: “Gileston”
- French: “Gileston”
- Irish: “Silstwn”
- Welsh: “Silstwn”
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