Ogmore
Ogmore is a village in St Bride's Major community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales on the River Ogmore. It grew around the now ruined Ogmore Castle, built by the Normans.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Goodall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Ogmore Village”, “Ogmore, Vale of Glamorgan”, and “Ogwr”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pelican In Her Piety and Southerndown Golf Club.
Southerndown Golf Club
Golf course
Photo: eswales, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Southerndown Golf Club is a downland/links golf club in the Vale of Glamorgan, in south-east Wales, near the coast and Ogmore-by-Sea and Southerndown, in proximity to Merthyr Mawr Sand Dunes.
Candleston Castle
Castle
Candleston Castle is a 14th-century fortified manor house, in ruins since the 19th century. It is 0.75 miles southwest of Merthyr Mawr, Glamorgan, Wales, now Bridgend County Borough and just 0.75 miles northwest of Ogmore Castle, separated by the River Ogmore.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Merthyr Mawr and Ogmore-by-Sea.
Merthyr Mawr
Village
Photo: Martin Ridley, Public domain.
Merthyr Mawr is a village and community in Bridgend, Wales. The village is about 2+1⁄2 miles from the centre of Bridgend town. The population of the community at the 2011 census was 267.
Ogmore-by-Sea
Village
Photo: David Lewis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ogmore-by-Sea is a seaside village in St Brides Major community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It lies on the western limit of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast of south Wales. The population in 2011 was 878.
Tythegston
Village
Photo: eswales, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tythegston is a conservation area village located close to Cardiff and Swansea on the south coast of Bridgend, Wales. It is home to Tythegston Court, a Grade II listed manor house at the centre of the 1,200 acre Tythegston Estate which is designated at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. Tythegston is situated 2 miles northwest of Ogmore.
Ogmore
- Categories: hamlet and locality
- Location: St Brides Major, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.47917° or 51° 28′ 45″ northLongitude
-3.61067° or 3° 36′ 38″ westElevation
190 feet (58 metres)Open location code
9C3RF9HQ+MPOpenStreetMap ID
node 259378467OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Ogmore” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ogmore”
- Breton: “Ogwr”
- Dutch: “Ogmore”
- Irish: “Ogwr”
- Welsh: “Ogmore”
- Welsh: “Ogwr”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ogmore”. Photo: John Goodall, CC BY-SA 2.0.