Gower
Gower is an area in Wales, United Kingdom. Gower is situated nearby to the village Llanrhidian, as well as near the locality The Common.Places of Interest
Highlights include Penrice Castle and Parc le Breos Chambered Tomb.
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 1½ miles southwest of Gower.
Parc le Breos Chambered Tomb
Archaeological site
Parc Cwm long cairn, also known as Parc le Breos burial chamber, is a partly restored Neolithic chambered tomb, identified in 1937 as a Severn-Cotswold type of chambered long barrow. Parc le Breos Chambered Tomb is situated 1½ miles east of Gower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llanrhidian and Penmaen.
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. Penrice is situated 2 miles southwest of Gower.
Gower
- Type: Area
- Location: Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.5952° or 51° 35′ 43″ north
Longitude
-4.14974° or 4° 8′ 59″ west
Elevation
249 feet (76 metres)
Open location code
9C3QHVW2+34
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