Oxwich Castle, Swansea

Name: Oxwich Castle
Address: Swansea, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1792 390359

#13 among attractions in Swansea

Forts and castles, Top attraction, Historical place, Gothic Revival architecture

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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. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 51°33'20"N, 4°10'6"W

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Penrhyn Gŵyr (Gŵyr)Swansea United Kingdom

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+44 1792 390359

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Day trips

Oxwich Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Pennard Castle, Weobley Castle, Church of St Illtyd, Red Lady of Paviland.

3.2 miNE
Forts and castles
Pennard Castle, Swansea
82 min walk • 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.
4.2 miN
Forts and castles
Weobley Castle, Swansea
107 min walk • Weobley Castle is a 14th-century fortified manor house on the Gower Peninsula, Wales, in the care of Cadw. The castle overlooks Llanrhidian saltmarshes and the Loughor estuary.
0.4 miE
Church
Church of St Illtyd, Swansea
11 min walk • The Church of St Illtyd is Grade II* Listed Building in the city and county of Swansea in south Wales. It is 1 km from Oxwich village, on a site overlooking Oxwich Bay and reached by the Wales Coast Path. It has a square churchyard with a stone wall and a modern gate.
3.8 miW
Prehistoric site
Red Lady of Paviland, Rhossili
96 min walk • The Red Lady of Paviland is an Upper Paleolithic partial skeleton of a male dyed in red ochre and buried in Britain 33,000 BP. The bones were discovered in 1823 by William Buckland in an archaeological dig at Goat's Hole Cave — one of the limestone caves between Port Eynon and Rhossili on the Gower Peninsula, Swansea, south Wales.
4 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Deborah's Hole Camp, Rhossili
102 min walk • Deborah's Hole Camp is an Iron Age hillfort situated atop the cliff above Deborah's Hole cave in the unitary authority of Swansea, Wales. It is crossed by the Wales Coast Path.
4.5 miE
Area
Pennard, Gower Peninsula
114 min walk • 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.
3 miW
Nature, Cave, Natural attraction
Long Hole Cave, Rhossili
77 min walk • Long Hole, also spelled Longhole, is a limestone cave on the south coast of the Gower Peninsula between Paviland and Port Eynon. It is relatively small, measuring about 15 m deep after several excavations. It was first excavated in 1861 by Colonel E. R. Wood. Wood found evidence of a lithic assemblage and faunal remains.
1.4 miN
Forts and castles, Romanesque architecture
Penrice Castle, Swansea
35 min walk • 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.
3.4 miNE
Nature, Cave, Natural attraction
Cathole Cave, Swansea
86 min walk • Cathole Cave, Cat Hole Cave or Cathole Rock Cave, is a cave near Parc Cwm long cairn at Parc le Breos, on the Gower Peninsula, Wales.
3.3 miNE
Memorial
Parc Cwm long cairn, Swansea
84 min walk • 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.
2.4 miN
Memorial
Cefn Bryn, Swansea
62 min walk • Cefn Bryn is an ancient ridge in Britain. It is a 5-mile-long Old Red Sandstone ridge in south Wales, in the heart of the Gower Peninsula, in the City and County of Swansea.