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Swansea works well as a base: 10 minutes from Morriston, 26km from Black Mountain Pass (A4069).
Swansea is in Wales, United Kingdom, with about 300,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Morriston, about 6 km away.
Swansea city centre in Swansea, Wales, contains the main shopping, leisure and nightlife district in Swansea. The city centre covers much of the Castle ward including the area around Oxford Street, Castle Square, and the Quadrant Shopping Centre; Alexandra Road, High Street, Wind Street and the Castle; Parc Tawe; andRead more
the Maritime Quarter extending down to the seafront.
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Within an hour or so of Swansea: Three Cliffs Bay (13 km), Melincourt Falls (19 km), Rhossili Bay (25 km), Black Mountain Pass (A4069) (26 km).
The nearest famous roads are Black Mountain Pass (A4069), Countisbury Hill and Porlock Hill.
Swansea is in Wales, United Kingdom, about 6 km from Morriston.
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Full driving guide for United Kingdom8 notable places within an hour's drive.
beach
Triple limestone peaks guard a sweep of sand where Pennard Pill meanders to the sea on the Gower: repeatedly voted among Britain's best beaches yet reached only on foot past a ruined castle. View from Pennard cliffs is the classic.
13 km · about 25 min drive
waterfall
An 24m fall in the Neath Valley painted by Turner in 1795, reached by a short riverside path.
19 km · about 20 min drive
beach
A sweeping three-mile beach on the Gower Peninsula with dramatic cliff views, Worm's Head promontory, and powerful surf.
25 km · about 30 min drive
famous road
Top Gear's favourite British road, a smooth, empty ribbon of hairpins and open bends over the western Brecon Beacons between Llangadog and Brynamman.
26 km · about 30 min drive
waterfall
At 27m the highest waterfall in south Wales, and the Batcave entrance in The Dark Knight Rises; reached by a steep wooded path.
27 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
A serpentine tidal island at the tip of Gower, crossable over a rock causeway for about two and a half hours either side of low tide.
27 km · about 30 min drive
racetrack
Wales's national motorsport centre on the Carmarthenshire coast, a fast former-airfield circuit once used by F1 teams including McLaren and Williams for secret testing.
28 km · about 30 min drive
waterfall
A graceful fall on the Afon Pyrddin near Pontneddfechan, also walkable behind, in the heart of Waterfall Country.
29 km · about 35 min drive
April to October
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