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Dist:0.4km<br/>Just down from Kittlehill the bridlepath takes you to this little bridge over the pill.
©David O'Carroll
Dist:0.4km<br/>The packhorse bridge over Burry Pill at Kittlehill between Llandimore & Cheriton. This is the only three arch bridge on Gower.
©Graham Taylor
Dist:0.4km<br/>In the wood edge footpaths cross and branch off.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.4km<br/>A well preserved pillar on the summit of Ryer's Down, easily reached from the lane to the west on National Trust land. This is the view across the Burry Inlet / Loughor Estuary to Llanelli. In the distance on the shoreline just to the right of the pillar you can see the row of residences from this photo [[276923]] ending in this white building [[1025504]] at the centre of shot.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.4km<br/>Trig S2383 at the 114m summit of Ryer's Down, immediately above the village of Burry Green.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.5km<br/>Given the proliferation of Bronze Age stones and cairns elsewehere on Gower, particularly on the hills, it's easy to believe that this (unmarked) stone at the summit of Ryer's Down was once standing.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.5km<br/>This new gate, one of a few in this immediate area, opens onto, or from a steep overgrown hillside.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.5km<br/>The considerably higher Llanmadoc Hill at 186m forms the background.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.6km<br/>A ruin at the side of the track from the Packhorse Bridge to Kittlehill Farm.
©Graham Taylor
Dist:0.7km<br/>A small squat church, built in the 14th c. by the English.
©Matthew Hatton
Dist:0.7km<br/>All that remains - a few low walls and some rubble - of the school that educated the children of the parish from 1860 to 1935. A small bench has been erected to commemorate the school's existence.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.8km<br/>The bare skeleton of the roadside hedging
©David O'Carroll
Dist:0.8km<br/>A beautiful little church alongside the one road through the village.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.8km<br/>Often referred to as 'the cathedral of Gower', this church has an interesting history. "As it currently stands, St Madoc's Church, Llanmadoc, (LB 11532 II) dates to the twelfth century, however it is regarded as having been founded much earlier in the sixth century by Saint Madoc. Following the Anglo-Norman annexation of the area the church was granted first to the Knights Templar in 1156 by Margaret, Countess of Warwick and, after the suppression of the order imposed by Pope Clement V in 1309, to the Knights Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem. In turn the church passed to the crown with the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry VIII. Little of the history of the church is documented until the late nineteenth century when renovations began." From Glamorgan and Gwent Archaeological Trust http://www.ggat.org.uk/cadw/historic_landscape/gower/english/Gower_Main.htm
©ceridwen
Dist:0.8km<br/>In 1874-75, using his own inheritance from the death of his parents a few years earlier, the Reverend J.D. Davies, rector of both Cheriton and Llanmadoc (1868 - 1911), carried out restoration work on the medieval building. A keen carpenter, he also carved the church's choir stalls, altar rails and the embossed wooden ceiling. The rector's handiwork can be seen in the churches of Llanmadoc, Llanrhidian and Oxwich as well and he also wrote a history of West Gower.
©ceridwen

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