Pennard

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Pennard Cliffs cliffs

Pennard is a small village in the southeast of the Welsh Gower Peninsula in Great Britain. The village belongs to the city of Swansea, about 12 km to the east . To the west of the old village is the modern development of Southgate .

Attractions

  • St Mary's church, dating from the 16th century, stands in an open field east of the village. A plaque in the church commemorates the Welsh poet Vernon Phillips Watkins , who was buried in the church, and the Anglo-Welsh poet Harri Webb (1920-1994) is buried in the churchyard.
  • Pennard Golf Club is west of Southgate . The 18-hole golf course was designed by James Braid in 1908 and is one of the most beautiful golf courses in Great Britain.
  • On the western edge of the golf course, on a hill, is the 12th-century ruins of Pennard Castle with the silted-up remains of a medieval church and the sparse remains of the High Pennard Camp , an Iron Age hill fort .
  • To the west of the castle ruins, the terrain drops steeply to the wooded valley of the Pennard Pill , in which the stream of the same name flows through meadows, sand dunes and limestone cliffs to its mouth in Three Cliffs Bay . The Stepping Stones , a series of stepping stones that can be traversed at low tide, lead across the stream .
  • South of Pennard is the cliff of the Pennard Cliffs with the National Trust owned Pwll Du Bay .

Web links

Commons : Pennard  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pennard Golf Club. Retrieved June 20, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Top 100 Golf Courses of the World. Retrieved June 20, 2013 .
  3. ^ Golf Club Atlas. Retrieved June 20, 2013 .
  4. ^ The National Trust: Pennard, Pwll Du and Bishopston Valley. Retrieved June 20, 2013 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′  N , 4 ° 4 ′  W