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Llanrhidian Lower is a
community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, ...
in the
Gower
Gower ( cy, Gŵyr) or the Gower Peninsula () in southwest Wales, projects towards the Bristol Channel. It is the most westerly part of the historic county of Glamorgan. In 1956, the majority of Gower became the first area in the United Kingdom ...
peninsula forming the west of
Swansea, south
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...
. The community has its own elected community council.
The population was 512 as of the 2011 UK census.
The area covered by the community council includes
Llanrhidian village and less populous
Cilibion to the east,
Oldwalls, Leason,
Llethryd and The Common. The main village sits well above steep coastal banks on a rolling plain below two promontories,
Arthur's Stone, Gower
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 ...
on the peninsula's main escarpment
Cefn Bryn, specifically being its western burial mound sometimes called Burnt Mound (154 metres
Above Ordnance Datum
In the British Isles, an ordnance datum or OD is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps. A spot height may be expressed as AOD for "above ordnance datum". Usually mean sea level (MSL) is used ...
); and a closer example, a small freestanding
tor equally close to the coast, Cilifor Top at 118 metres.
The coast here consists of broad and long Llanrhidian Marsh followed by similar-size (tidal) Llanrhidian Sands and then the relatively thinly watered
Loughor Estuary
The River Loughor () ( cy, Afon Llwchwr) is a river in Wales which marks the border between Carmarthenshire and Swansea. The river is sourced from an underground lake at the Black Mountain emerging at the surface from Llygad Llwchwr which tran ...
at low tide;
Llanelli
Llanelli (" St Elli's Parish"; ) is a market town and the largest community in Carmarthenshire and the preserved county of Dyfed, Wales. It is located on the Loughor estuary north-west of Swansea and south-east of the county town, Carmarth ...
,
Pwll
Pwll is a small coastal village, located between Llanelli and Burry Port, Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Description
Pwll has a local shop, pet shop, Post Office located in The Blue Anchor (Wednesdays and Fridays 12:00 until 15:00), a few pubs, a stea ...
and
Burry Port (Porth Tywyn) face the other side of the estuary and lack such a marsh habitat though have more
mudflats in places.
Llanrhidian Lower has a
community council
A community council is a public representative body in Great Britain.
In England they may be statutory parish councils by another name, under the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, or they may be non-statutory bodies. In ...
of six councillors, who meet monthly at Llanrhidian Community Hall.
See also
*
Llanrhidian Higher
Sources
Gower Community Councils: Map of the Community Councils on Gower
References
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Communities in Swansea
Populated places on the Gower Peninsula