Gower Society

Gower Society
Founded	1947
Location	Swansea
Area served	Swansea
Members	1500
Slogan	guarding Gower for all its worth
Mission	to promote the understanding, enjoyment and preservation of the Gower
Website	http://www.thegowersociety.org.uk/

The Gower Society was founded in 1947 to promote the understanding and protection of the local landscape of Swansea. The society is a registered charity and it arranges lectures, visits and other events and publishes its journal, Gower.

Gower Peninsula

Geographical areas	Bishop's Wood Burry Holms Cefn Bryn Clyne Common Fairwood Common Loughor estuary

Beaches listed clockwise	Bracelet Bay Limeslade Bay Rotherslade Langland Bay Caswell Bay Brandy Cove Pwlldu Bay Hunts Bay Pobbles Bay Three Cliffs Bay Tor Bay Oxwich Bay Slade Bay Horton Beach Port Eynon Beach Mewslade Bay Fall Bay Rhossili Bay (Llangennith Sands) Burry Holms Blue Pool Bay Broughton Bay Whiteford Sands

Headlands	Burry Holms Mumbles Rhossili

Villages in Gower	Bishopston Burry Green Caswell Cheriton Crofty Gowerton Horton Ilston Kittle Knelston Landimore Langland Llanddewi Llangennith Llanmadoc Llanmorlais Llanrhidian Llethryd Middleton Murton Newton Nicholaston Oldwalls Overton Oxwich Oxwich Green Parkmill Penclawdd Pennard Penmaen Penrice Pitton Pitton Green Port Eynon Reynoldston Rhossili Slade Scurlage Southgate Three Crosses Upper Killay

Prehistoric sites	Arthur's Stone Parc Cwm long cairn Paviland Cave

Castles	Loughor Castle Oxwich Castle Oystermouth Castle Pennard Castle Penrice Castle Weobley Castle

Lighthouses	Mumbles Lighthouse Whiteford Lighthouse

Other	Cuisine of Gower Gower Society Gower Ornithological Society Parc le Breos

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