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Looking north across farmland towards Pitton Village
©Tim Sargeant
Dist:0.1km<br/>Valley leading to Mewslade Bay. Looking south west
©Martin Bodman
Dist:0.2km<br/>This field, named Nitten Field, has been an 8 year set-aside project (funded by the Countryside Council for Wales and The Gower Society) and implemented by locals and a local farmer, its aim to support over-wintering birdlife. The 3 acre field has been sown with barley, dwarf sunflower, linseed, kale, kale hybrid and chicory strips - food for migrating and native birds such as finches. The project seems successful, attracting greenfinch, goldfinch, chaffinch, yellowhammer, various pipits, skylark, reed bunting, brambling and the more familiar sparrows. Bonuses have been a rise in butterfly and insect life too, along with a booming vole population and linked in, rises in numbers of grass snakes, slow worms and adders in the field margins. Every village should have such a project!
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.3km<br/>I haven't seen a newly whitewashed farmyard for a long while. This one is shown off to perfection by the Spring sunshine.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.3km<br/>A small but beautiful spot on Gower. The slade is a wonderful feature and the bay at its bottom is one of my favourites on Gower.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.4km<br/>This old narrow field access track also carries a footpath, albeit a muddy one today, which at least argues for constant usage.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.5km<br/>An old path between fields with ferny banks and sheltering hedges.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.5km<br/>Late October
©John Duckfield
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking east-south-east from the upper coast path. The lone house above the cliff is at or near Alveley
©Martin Bodman
Dist:0.6km<br/>Mewslade with the tide out a little way.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.6km<br/>The cliff path heading west from Mewslade Bay - in stormy weather.
©Malcolm Reid
Dist:0.7km<br/>The route up here from the back of the bay is pretty spectacular.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.7km<br/>The coast path runs adjacent to this old wall then diverts away from it.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.7km<br/>Worms Head in the distance
©John Thorn
Dist:0.7km<br/>The hole in the ground in the foreground is known as The Red Chamber. The footpath crosses an overhang whilst the waves crash beneath. This footpath is not for the faint-hearted. The rocks in the background are Thurba Head. Climbing them is not to be advised in windy weather as there is a sheer drop of a couple of hundred feet into the waters of Mewslade Bay beyond what you can see here.
©Graham Taylor

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