Cefn Bryn

Cefn Bryn is an ancient ridge in Britain. It is a 5-mile-long Old Red Sandstone ridge in south Wales, in the heart of the Gower Peninsula, in the City and County of Swansea.

Photo: Matthew Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Nicholas Church and Penrice Castle.

St Nicholas Church

Church

Photo: Chris Henley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Penrice Castle

Castle

Photo: Alan Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Parc le Breos Chambered Tomb

Archaeological site

Photo: Daicaregos, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Penmaen and Penrice.

Penmaen

Village

Photo: Peter Glyn, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Penmaen is a village.

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.

Parkmill

Village

Parkmill is a village in the Gower Peninsula, South Wales, midway between the villages of Penmaen and Ilston, about eight miles west of Swansea, and about one mile from the north coast of the Bristol Channel.

Cefn Bryn

Type: Peak with an elevation of 617 feet
Description: hill (188m) in City and County of Swansea
Categories: mountain ridge, hill, and landform
Location: Ilston, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.58003° or 51° 34′ 48″ north

Longitude

-4.14023° or 4° 8′ 25″ west

Elevation

617 feet (188 metres)

Open location code

9C3QHVJ5+2W

OpenStreetMap ID

node 802763385

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=survey_point

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

12609445

Wikidata ID

Q5057248

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In Other Languages

From Norwegian Bokmål to Welsh—“Cefn Bryn” goes by many names.

Norwegian Bokmål: “Cefn Bryn”
Welsh: “Cefn Bryn”

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