Penrice 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.

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Type: Castle
Description: castle in Penrice, Swansea, Wales, UK
Also known as: “Penrice Castle (ruins)”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Andrew’s Church and Oxwich Castle.

St Andrew’s Church

Church

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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 2,200 feet southwest of Penrice Castle.

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. Oxwich Castle is situated 1¼ miles south of Penrice Castle.

St Nicholas Church

Church

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St Nicholas Church is situated 1 mile east of Penrice Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Penrice and Oxwich.

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.

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.