Visit Morriston Places

Welcome to Visit Morriston Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Morriston

  

Morriston Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Morriston

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You can visit Morriston places with Walkfo Morriston to hear history at Morriston’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Morriston has 51 places to visit in our interactive Morriston map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Morriston, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Morriston places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Morriston & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Morriston Places Map
51 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Morriston tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Morriston

  

Best Morriston places to visit

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Morriston has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Morriston’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Morriston’s information audio spots:

Craig-Cefn-Parc television relay station The Craig-Cefn-Parc television relay station is sited on Mynydd Gelliwastad to the west of Clydach in the Swansea Valley. It was originally built in the 1980s as a fill-in relay for UHF analogue colour television. It consists of a 17 m self-supporting lattice mast standing on land which is itself about 160 m above sea level.

Penlan Penlan is a suburban area of Swansea, Wales in the Penderry ward. The area is set on top of a hill, which overlooks Townhill, Kilvey Hill and Swansea Bay.

Penderry Penderry (Welsh: Penderi) is the name of an electoral ward and a community in Swansea, Wales, UK. The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following geographical areas: Penlan, Portmead, Blaen-y-Maes, Fforesthall and Caereithin. The current councillors are: June Burtonshaw, Doreen Jones and Grenville Phillips.

Mynyddbach Chapel Mynyddbach Chapel is the oldest Independent chapel in Swansea, Wales. In about 1640 a group of people met on the Sabbath and on week nights to read the Scriptures and have prayer in “Cilfwnwr” farmhouse near Llangyfelach. They continued to meet as a properly constituted church until 1762. A piece of land was leased in 1761 and a chapel built there shortly afterwards, at Tirdoncyn-newydd. In 1867 the new chapel was built; it was extensively renovated in the 1930s.

Hafod Copperworks The remains of the Hafod-Morfa Copperworks, originally developed by Vivian & Sons, consists of a core Grade II listed building. The site is located on a 12 acres (4.9 ha) site, on the banks of the River Tawe.

Tabernacle Chapel, Morriston The Tabernacle Chapel (Capel y Tabernacl in Welsh), also known as Libanus Chapel, is a Grade I listed chapel on Woodfield Street in Morriston, Swansea.

Morriston Morriston is the largest community in Swansea county. It has never had a town charter and is now part of the continuous urban sprawl around Swansea. It is the most populous of Swansea’s electoral divisions.

Ynystawe Ynystawe (also Ynysdawe in Welsh; Welsh pronunciation: [ənɨ̞s.taʊ.ɛ] is a village in the City and County of Swansea, Wales. It is 0.5 miles (1 km) north of the M4 motorway junction 45 in the Swansea Valley. The Welsh name derives from ynys, meaning “island” or “river-meadow”, and Tawe.

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