The Gower is a thumb of limestone sticking out west of Swansea, and it was the first place in the United Kingdom named an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It runs about nineteen miles end to end.
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Southgate, Swansea & Gower
A five-star luxury holiday cottage at Southgate on the Gower, sleeping 5 — dog-friendly, close to Three Cliffs Bay.
Port Eynon, Swansea & Gower
A 4-star cottage in Port Eynon on the Gower, sleeping 6, just 150m from the beach and walkable to the village. Dog-friendly.
Port Eynon, Swansea & Gower
A 4-star cottage just 150m from Port Eynon beach on the Gower, sleeping 8, walkable to the pub, surf shop and shops. Dog-friendly.
Port Eynon, Swansea & Gower
A 4-star cottage in Port Eynon on the Gower, sleeping 8, just 200m from the beach and walkable to the village. Dog-friendly.
Port Eynon, Swansea & Gower
A 4-star group house in Port Eynon on the Gower, sleeping 14, just 150m from the beach — two cottages combined into one. Walkable to the…
Llangennith, Swansea & Gower
A stylish 5-star boutique B&B just outside Llangennith on the Gower, with en-suite rooms and a private hot tub, near Rhossili and the surf coast.
Horton, Swansea & Gower
Family park at Horton with touring pitches, glamping pods, hot tub bungalows, a pool, a tennis court and a bar and restaurant.
Port Eynon, Swansea & Gower
Touring, camping and self-catering chalets at Port Eynon, five minutes walk from the village and the Ship Inn.
Mumbles, Swansea & Gower
A five-room boutique guest house on the Mumbles promenade with views across Swansea Bay, and a two-bedroom cottage next door.
Llangennith, Swansea & Gower
Camping, touring pitches and four self-catering lodges in the dunes, 200 yards from Llangennith beach.
The south coast is the one people come for: Langland and Caswell near Mumbles, then Three Cliffs, Oxwich, Port Eynon and Rhossili strung west along the cliff. Rhossili is three miles of sand, with Worm’s Head at the end of it. Worm is the old word for a dragon, and that is what the headland was thought to look like.
The north side is a different country and far quieter. The land flattens into the Loughor estuary at Llanrhidian and Penclawdd, sheep graze out on the salt marsh, and the tide goes out for miles.
Drive west from Swansea along the north side and the village names are Welsh: Llanrhidian, Llanmadoc, Penclawdd, Llangennith. Drop south across the ridge and they turn English — Horton, Overton, Oxwich, Reynoldston.
That is not an accident. After the Normans took the peninsula, the good flat farmland in the south filled with settlers brought over from the English west country. The older Welsh-speaking communities kept the higher, poorer ground to the north.
The two halves were known as the Englishry and the Welshry, and the line between them ran roughly from Llanrhidian down to Clyne. As a working division it vanished long ago, but nobody renamed the villages, so you can still read it off a map.
The peninsula turned seventy as a protected landscape in May 2026. It carries a second official name now, Gower National Landscape, though the legal designation as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty has not changed.
Weobley Castle stands above the north marsh with the estuary laid out below it, and opens daily except over Christmas and New Year, at about five pounds for an adult. Oxwich Castle is different: it opens only on selected dates between May and August on a guided tour, so check before you drive over.
At Parkmill the Gower Heritage Centre lets visitors in seven days a week, ten till five. A working mill from the eleven hundreds sits at the middle of it, with craft workshops and a small cinema alongside. Much of the site is outdoors, so it suits a shower better than a downpour.
The Gower Way runs thirty-five miles from the cliffs at Rhossili to Penlle’r Castell, a ruined hilltop fort inland, marked by numbered stones about every kilometre. Each September the Gower Walking Festival puts on more than thirty guided walks along routes like it.
Nineteen miles of limestone west of Swansea, with the big beaches along the south coast, the estuary and salt marsh on the north, and Cefn Bryn running down the middle. Book direct with the owner where you can.
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