4 Blogs for Swansea and Gower ©
4 Blogs for Swansea and Gower

4 Blogs for Swansea and Gower

Rhossili's own village website, a local working through every Gower beach, Mumbles residents' community hub, and the bay's tourism team

Gower is small, and the people who write about it best live on it. Here are a village website written by Rhossili's residents, a Swansea designer ticking off every beach on the peninsula one by one, a pair of Mumbles locals who built a community hub because they kept missing village events, and the council's own tourism team.

What they agree on is that Gower's best places are the small ones: a hidden cove reached by a long walk, a rock-pooling bay round the headland, neolithic tombs on the down above the most famous beach in Wales.

Further Reading

4 Blogs for Swansea and Gower

  1. 01 Walks Around Rhossili rhossilihwb.wales Written by the village itself, with residents' photos. It names eleven features along the Rhossili coast, from a wartime radar station to the cave where the Red Lady of Paviland was found.
  2. 02 Visiting all the beaches in Swansea and Gower benjystanton.co.uk · Benjy Stanton Not a travel blog: a Swansea designer's running challenge to visit all 42 beaches, logging access and seals as he goes. The only source here for the tiny coves.
  3. 03 10 Free Things to Do in Mumbles This Summer mumbles.life Two Mumbles residents' community hub. This list goes past the pier to the nature reserve on the hill and the community orchard behind the village.
  4. 04 Top 5 Walks this Autumn! visitswanseabay.com The council's destination team, looking inland for once, to the Victorian valley at Penllergare and the hilltop fort at Penlle'r Castell.

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