Cefn Bryn, Swansea

Name: Cefn Bryn
Address: Swansea, United Kingdom

#61 among attractions in Swansea

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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. Local people colloquially refer to it as the "backbone of Gower", as it protrudes from surrounding limestone. The highest point on the ridge is the second highest point in the peninsula, offering panoramic views of the surrounding country and seas. The swathes of grassland around the ridge are known as Cefn Bryn Common. ()

Coordinates: 51°35'25"N, 4°10'4"W

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Penrhyn Gŵyr (Gŵyr)Swansea United Kingdom

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Cefn Bryn – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Machynys Peninsula Golf Club & Premier Spa, Pennard Castle, Oxwich Castle, Weobley Castle.

4.9 miN
Lounge, Golf
Machynys Peninsula Golf Club & Premier Spa, Llanelli
125 min walk • Machynys Peninsula Golf Country Club is a golf club based in Machynys, just outside Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, Wales. This Course is a links championship golf course open to Members and Visitors. The course was opened in 2005, designed by Gary Nicklaus and is 7121 yards.
3 miE
Forts and castles
Pennard Castle, Swansea
76 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.
2.4 miS
Forts and castles, Historical place, Gothic Revival architecture
Oxwich Castle, Swansea
62 min walk • Oxwich Castle is a Grade I listed castle which occupies a position on a wooded headland overlooking Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula, Wales.
2.1 miNW
Forts and castles
Weobley Castle, Swansea
53 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.
2.5 miS
Church
Church of St Illtyd, Swansea
65 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.
4.7 miSW
Prehistoric site
Red Lady of Paviland, Rhossili
120 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.
4.7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Deborah's Hole Camp, Rhossili
121 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.
4.2 miE
Area
Pennard, Gower Peninsula
108 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.
4.4 miSW
Nature, Cave, Natural attraction
Long Hole Cave, Rhossili
112 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.
1.1 miS
Forts and castles, Romanesque architecture
Penrice Castle, Swansea
27 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.
2.4 miE
Nature, Cave, Natural attraction
Cathole Cave, Swansea
61 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.