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This part of the community park once held a popular tennis club. The flat area that remains is now used for group activities and for introducing ethnic minority groups to outdoor recreation; it also has some open-air exercise equipment.
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This site was once a quarry. Now it is a park and small nature reserve hidden away right in the middle of dense housing. The information board tells of how this flattened area was also previously a tennis club.
©Nigel Davies
This little pocket wilderness on the site of a former quarry supports over 100 plant species and 30 different birds and a variety of amphibians in its trees, rocky sides and fresh running water. Sandstone was quarried here in the mid-C19 for building the surrounding rsidential street. After a period of neglect it was rescued and turned into a recreational and natural history resource for the local community. On the day I visited a group of tiny children, all dressed in red like a troop of pixies, were playing hide and seek under he watching eye of their teachers.
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The port of Swansea is backed by a huge mound of sandstone over which the districts of Townhill, Mount Pleasant and Uplands now sprawl. This rock face reveals the blue Pennant stone that provided building material for housing during the second half of the C19 when this was a working stone quarry.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>On a higher level than the street, these modernised Victorian houses have steps leading up to elevated gardens along a retaining wall.
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Dist:0.1km<br/>The quarry bowl has been left for a while and nature has reclaimed it. The high north wall on the right is obscured by trees and in the middle of the circular path is a small pond that is said to be home to newts.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.2km<br/>In the Sandfields area of Swansea.
©Deborah Tilley
Dist:0.2km<br/>Where Constitution Hill meets Terrace Road - is it to enhance their visibility or something to do with the nearby primary school?
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The corner with Constitution Hill, showing the hill's re-laid/renewed 'cobbles' as they are termed, although strictly speaking they are 'setts', i.e. dressed stone blocks. NB The number of chimney pots indicate these houses would once have had a fireplace in every room!
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Constitution Hill reaches its highest point here but this is not yet the top of Townhill. The white house must have a stunning view straight down this notoriously steep street.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>The leafy environs of what seems to be the most desirable section of this long road high above the town.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The end of Cromwell Road fell away in July 2009 after a period of heavy rain.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The top of Ffynone Drive where it forks off Terrace Road and runs down from this elevation towards Uplands.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>At first glance, this really doesn't look like it belongs with all the other pictures submitted for this square (including the modest house where poet Dylan Thomas was born). This is in fact Mansion House, the official residence of the Mayor of Swansea and the interior is just as ornate as the exterior. The house is set apart from other surrounding houses in its own grounds.
©Hywel Williams
Dist:0.3km<br/>A steep cobbled hill leading from Walters Road to Terrace road. A funicular railway operated on the hill between 1898 and 1903 on a gradient of between 14% and 28.6%. The hill has often been used in a stage of the Round Britain cycle race. For a view from the top follow this http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1088271 .
©Peter Shaw

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