Sully Island
Sully Island is a small tidal island of 14.5 acres by the hamlet of Swanbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is located 400 m off the northern coast of the Bristol Channel, midway between the towns of Penarth and Barry and 10 km south of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Sully Island and Lavernock Battery.
Sully Island
Archaeological site
Photo: Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sully Island is an archaeological site.
Lavernock Battery
Fort
Photo: Celuici, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lavernock Battery was built at Lavernock Point, Wales on the recommendations of the 1860 Royal Commission during the late 1860s to protect the ports of the Severn Estuary.
Glamorganshire Golf Club
Golf course
Glamorganshire Golf Club is located in Lower Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, 7.3 miles south west from the capital city of Cardiff and is one of the oldest golf clubs in Wales.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sully and Cog.
Sully
Photo: ben salter, CC BY 2.0.
Sully is a village in the community of Sully and Lavernock, in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, lying on the northern coast of the Bristol Channel, midway between the towns of Penarth and Barry and 7 miles southwest of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff.
Lavernock
Hamlet
Photo: Ben Salter, CC BY 2.0.
Lavernock is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, lying on the coast 7 miles south of Cardiff between Penarth and Sully, and overlooking the Bristol Channel.
Sully Island
- Type: Island
- Description: small tidal island off the northern coast of the Bristol Channel near Cardiff
- Categories: tidal island, Site of Special Scientific Interest, locality, and landform
- Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.3957° or 51° 23′ 45″ northLongitude
-3.19845° or 3° 11′ 54″ westElevation
-3 feet (-1 metres)Open location code
9C3R9RW2+7JOpenStreetMap ID
way 491160982OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Sully Island” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Ynys Sili”
- Cebuano: “Sully Island”
- German: “Sully Island”
- Japanese: “サリー島”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sully Island”
- Swedish: “Sully Island”
- Welsh: “Ynys Sili”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Spinney Holiday Park and Island View Caravan Park.
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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 “Sully Island”. Photo: ben salter, CC BY 2.0.