Oxwich Castle
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.- Type: Castle
- Description: Grade I listed fortified manor house in Penrice, Swansea, Wales
- Also known as: “Castell Oxwich”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Illtyd, Penrice and Penrice Castle.
Church of St Illtyd, Penrice
Church
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. Church of St Illtyd, Penrice is situated 2,200 feet east of Oxwich Castle.
Penrice Castle
Castle
Penrice Castle is a 13th-century castle near Penrice, Swansea on the Gower Peninsula, Wales. Nearby is a neo-classical mansion house built in the 1770s. Penrice Castle is situated 1¼ miles north of Oxwich Castle.
St Andrew’s Church
Church
The Church of St Andrew, Penrice, Swansea, Wales dates from the 12th century. A Grade II* listed building, St Andrew's remains an active parish church in the parish of South-West Gower, in the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon. St Andrew’s Church is situated 1 mile north of Oxwich Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oxwich and Penrice.
Oxwich
Village
Penrice
Hamlet
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.
Port Eynon
Village
Port Eynon is a village and community within the City and County of Swansea, Wales, on the far south tip of the Gower Peninsula within the designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Port Eynon is situated 2 miles west of Oxwich Castle.
Oxwich Castle
- Categories: fortified manor house, archaeological site, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Penrice, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.55548° or 51° 33′ 20″ north
Longitude
-4.1683° or 4° 10′ 6″ west
Elevation
207 feet (63 metres)
Open location code
9C3QHR4J+5M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Oxwich Castle” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Oxwich gaztelua”
- Cebuano: “Oxwich Castle”
- Danish: “Oxwich Castle”
- German: “Oxwich Castle”
- Italian: “Castello di Oxwich”
- Italian: “Oxwich Castle”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oxwich Castle”
- Norwegian: “Oxwich Castle”
- Swedish: “Oxwich Castle”
- Turkish: “Oxwich Kalesi”
- Welsh: “Castell Oxwich”
- “Castell Oxwich”
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