Tircoed forest village
Tircoed forest village is a suburb between the villages of Penllergaer and Pontlliw, Swansea, Wales. It is part of the Pontlliw and Tircoed community. Built from the late 1980s onwards, Tircoed currently consists of 470 houses clustered around a village hall, pond and green, accessible from the A48 via a 1⁄2-mile-long road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Swansea, Wales, UK
- Also known as: “Tircoed”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Equatorial Observatory, Penllergare and Gorseinon Hospital.
The Equatorial Observatory, Penllergare
Ruins
Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Equatorial Observatory, Penllergare is a ruins.
Gorseinon Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gorseinon Hospital is a rehabilitation hospital in Gorseinon, Wales. It is managed by Swansea Bay University Health Board. Gorseinon Hospital is situated 2½ miles west of Tircoed forest village.
Gorseinon Library
Library
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gorseinon Library is situated 2 miles southwest of Tircoed forest village.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pontlliw and Penllergaer.
Pontlliw
Village
Photo: Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pontlliw is a village in the community of Pontlliw and Tircoed, part of the City and County of Swansea in Wales. The village is located near Pontarddulais, off Junction 47 of the M4 motorway.
Penllergaer
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Penllergaer is a village and community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales. It lies to the east of Gorseinon, within the electoral ward of the same name.
Felindre
Village
Photo: RobinLeicester, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Felindre is a rural village in the City and County of Swansea, south Wales. Felindre is located in the far north of the city of Swansea, in the electoral ward of Mawr. Felindre is situated 2 miles northeast of Tircoed forest village.
Tircoed forest village
- Category: locality
- Location: Pontlliw and Tircoed, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.68238° or 51° 40′ 57″ northLongitude
-3.99672° or 3° 59′ 48″ westElevation
217 feet (66 metres)Open location code
9C3RM2J3+X8OpenStreetMap ID
node 306171168OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Tircoed forest village” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Tircoed forest village”
- French: “Tircoed forest village”
- Irish: “Tircoed”
- Japanese: “ティルコイド・フォレスト・ヴィレッジ”
- Spanish: “Tircoed”
- Welsh: “Tircoed”
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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 “Tircoed forest village”. Photo: Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.