Slade Bay

Slade Bay is a beach in Penrice, Swansea, Wales. Slade Bay is situated nearby to the motorhome stopover Sealands Farm, as well as near the forest Oxwich Wood.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Oxwich Castle and Church of St Illtyd, Penrice.

Oxwich Castle

Castle

Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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 1 mile northeast of Slade Bay.

Church of St Illtyd, Penrice

Church

Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Church of St Illtyd is a Grade II* listed building in the city and county of Swansea in south Wales. It is close to Oxwich village, on a site overlooking Oxwich Bay and reached by the Wales Coast Path. Church of St Illtyd, Penrice is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Slade Bay.

Horton and Port Eynon Lifeboat Station

Building

Photo: Graham Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Horton and Port Eynon Lifeboat Station is located at Horton Beach, just off Underhill Lane in the village of Horton, on the south coast of the Gower Peninsula in Wales, approximately 14 miles west of Swansea. Horton and Port Eynon Lifeboat Station is situated 4,100 feet west of Slade Bay.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oxwich and Port Eynon.

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.

Port Eynon

Village

Photo: ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Port Eynon is a village and community within the City and County of Swansea, Wales, on the far south tip of the Gower Peninsula within the designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Penrice

Hamlet

Photo: TeleD, CC0.

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 1½ miles north of Slade Bay.

Slade Bay

Type: Beach
Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, and landform
Location: Penrice, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.54736° or 51° 32′ 51″ north

Longitude

-4.18292° or 4° 10′ 59″ west

Open location code

9C3QGRW8+WR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1493808573

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=beach

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

OpenStreetMap feature

waterway=tidal

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