Oxwich Wood

Oxwich Wood is a forest in Penrice, Swansea, Wales. Oxwich Wood is situated nearby to the village Slade, as well as near the hamlet Penrice.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oxwich Castle and Penrice Castle.

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.

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.

St Andrew’s Church

Church

Photo: ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Church of St Andrew, Penrice, Swansea, Wales dates from the 12th century. A Grade II* listed building, St Andrew's remains an active parish church in the parish of South-West Gower, in the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gower Peninsula and Port Eynon.

Gower Peninsula

Photo: Catrin Austin, CC BY 2.0.

The beautiful Gower Peninsula in Swansea was the United Kingdom's first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The peninsula is famous for its stunning coastal scenery, wide sandy beaches and medieval castles.

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.

Oxwich Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Penrice, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.5527° or 51° 33′ 10″ north

Longitude

-4.1624° or 4° 9′ 45″ west

Open location code

9C3QHR3Q+32

OpenStreetMap ID

way 23784969

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

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