Bishop’s Wood
Bishop's Wood is a nature reserve in the Gower Peninsula, south Wales. The area consists of 46 acres of limestone woodland and grassland. Part of the wood is classified as ancient woodland.Places of Interest
Highlights include Oystermouth Castle and Langland Bay Golf Club.
Oystermouth Castle
Photo: Jennifer Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oystermouth Castle is a Norman stone castle in Wales, overlooking Swansea Bay on the east side of the Gower Peninsula in the village of Mumbles.
Langland Bay Golf Club
Golf course
Langland Bay Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course known in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty overlooking Langland Bay near Swansea, Wales, UK. The first evidence of a golf club at Langland Bay is a minute book dating from 1901.
Clyne Common
Heath
Clyne Common is a lowland area of common land in the Gower Peninsula, Wales. Clyne Common is the easternmost of a set of commons that includes Fairwood Common, Forest Common, Pengwern Common, and Welsh Moor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mumbles and Bishopston.
Mumbles
Village
Photo: Wiccasha, Public domain.
Mumbles is a district of Swansea, Wales, located on the south-east corner of the unitary authority area. It is also a local government community using the same name.
Bishopston
Village
Bishopston is a large village and community situated on the Gower Peninsula, 6 miles west south west of the centre of Swansea in South Wales. It is partly within the Gower Peninsula Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Oystermouth
Suburb
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oystermouth is a village in the district of Mumbles, Swansea, Wales. It is part of the Mumbles community.
Bishop’s Wood
- Type: Forest
- Description: nature reserve in the Gower Peninsula, Wales, UK
- Category: nature reserve
- Location: Bishopston, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.5737° or 51° 34′ 25″ northLongitude
-4.0306° or 4° 1′ 50″ westOpen location code
9C3QHXF9+FQOpenStreetMap ID
way 19879547OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forestOpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodWikidata ID
Q4917450
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Bishop’s Wood” goes by many names.
- Welsh: “Coed yr Esgob”
- Welsh: “Coed Yr Esgob”
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