Gowerton

Gowerton Welsh: Tre-gŵyr
Gowerton Location within Swansea
Population	8,183 [1]
OS grid reference	SS595965
Principal area	Swansea
Preserved county	West Glamorgan
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SWANSEA
Postcode district	SA4
Dialling code	01792
Police	South Wales
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Gower
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Gower
List of places UK Wales Swansea 51°38′53″N 4°02′35″W / 51.648°N 4.043°W / 51.648; -4.043

Gower
Morning Sun at Tor Bay
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 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 Long Hole Cave Parc le Breos 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 Geology of the Gower Peninsula Gower Ornithological Society Gower Wassail Ilston Book
People Byron Davies Ifor Davies Edgar Evans Iris Gower Cyril Gwynn Karl Jenkins Nigel Jenkins Thomas Johnes (priest) Ernest Jones Kathleen Lloyd Jones Will Jones (rugby union) Jo Mazelis John Myles (minister) Red Lady of Paviland Colin Pressdee Phil Tanner Mark Thomas (composer) Vernon Watkins Harri Webb Audrey Williams (archaeologist) C. Anne Wilson
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Gowerton (Welsh: Tre-gŵyr ^ⓘ) is a large village and community, about 4 miles (6 km) north west of Swansea city centre, Wales. Gowerton is often known as the gateway to the Gower Peninsula. Gowerton's original name was Ffosfelin. The village falls within the Gowerton electoral ward of the City and County of Swansea Council, which elects one councillor. The community had a population of 5,212^[2] and the built-up area with Waunarlwydd 8,183.^[3]

In 1980, the Welsh National Eisteddfod (named after Dyffryn Lliw, see below) was held at the Elba sports complex in the village. The Eisteddfod stone (Gorsedd stones) is located on the roundabout (grid ref. 585966) on the B4295 road to Penclawdd.