Watch House
Watch House is a cliff in Pennard, Swansea, Wales. Watch House is situated nearby to the cliff White Edge, as well as near Ravenscliff Gully.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pennard Castle and Parc le Breos Chambered Tomb.
Pennard Castle
Castle
Photo: Graham Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pennard Castle is a ruined castle, near the modern village of Pennard on the Gower Peninsula, in south Wales. The castle was built in the early 12th century as a timber ringwork following the Norman invasion of Wales. Pennard Castle is situated 4,100 feet north of Watch House.
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. Parc le Breos Chambered Tomb is situated 1½ miles northwest of Watch House.
St Mary’s Church
Church
Photo: ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary’s Church is situated 1½ miles northeast of Watch House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Southgate and Pennard.
Southgate
Village
Southgate is a village in the community of Pennard on the Gower Peninsula, Swansea, Wales. It is also a community electoral ward for Pennard Community Council. The population in 2011 was 2,004, making up most of the population of the community.
Pennard
Village
Photo: ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pennard is a village and community on the south of the Gower Peninsula, about 7 miles south-west of Swansea city centre. It falls within the Pennard electoral ward of Swansea.
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.
Watch House
- Type: Cliff
- Categories: climbing site, sports location, and landform
- Location: Pennard, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.56578° or 51° 33′ 57″ northLongitude
-4.09644° or 4° 5′ 47″ westOpen location code
9C3QHW83+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 475721822OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cliffOpenStreetMap feature
sport=climbing
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