Oxwich Point ‘Chain Home Low’ Radar Station (WWII)
Oxwich Point ‘Chain Home Low’ Radar Station (WWII) is a building in Penrice, Swansea, Wales. Oxwich Point ‘Chain Home Low’ Radar Station (WWII) is situated nearby to the forest Oxwich Wood, as well as near the hamlet Penrice.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Oxwich Castle and Church of St Illtyd, Penrice.
Oxwich Castle
Castle
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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 northwest of Oxwich Point ‘Chain Home Low’ Radar Station (WWII).
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 4,200 feet northwest of Oxwich Point ‘Chain Home Low’ Radar Station (WWII).
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. Penrice Castle is situated 2½ miles north of Oxwich Point ‘Chain Home Low’ Radar Station (WWII).
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oxwich and Penrice.
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.
Penrice
Hamlet
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 2 miles northwest of Oxwich Point ‘Chain Home Low’ Radar Station (WWII).
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. Port Eynon is situated 2½ miles west of Oxwich Point ‘Chain Home Low’ Radar Station (WWII).
Oxwich Point ‘Chain Home Low’ Radar Station (WWII)
- Type: Building
- Location: Penrice, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.54353° or 51° 32′ 37″ northLongitude
-4.15178° or 4° 9′ 6″ westOpen location code
9C3QGRVX+C7OpenStreetMap ID
way 24239340OpenStreetMap feature
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