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Looking from the southernmost extremity of Burry Green, next to the duck pond on the road to Burry. Burry Court seems to be the HQ of a local holiday cottage operation. I'm not in the business of promoting the company, but there ARE further photographs on the entire site that provide an interesting supplement to my own photo: http://www.burrycottages.co.uk/directions/directions.htm
©Stephen Wilks
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking east towards the wooded valley of Burry Pill, with Cefn Bryn beyond. There was a mediaeval settlement here and the green appears to have retained its status as a common.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Bethesda Chapel was built in 1813 or 1814 by Diana, Baroness Barham (d. 1823), who also built and established other chapels and schools in the area. During the first years, the Chapel was supplied by ministers of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, staying for about two months at a time. The Rev. William Griffiths, the 'father' of Calvinistic Methodism in Gower, was appointed minister of the Chapel in 1824 under the patronage of Lord Barham, and remained there until his death. The Rev. William Griffiths (1788-1861) was a Calvinistic Methodist minister, born at Clydau, Pembrokeshire. In 1807 he was forced to enlist in the militia and was influenced by the Methodists whom he later joined. In 1817, at the request of Lady Barham, he was sent as a missionary to the English-speaking community of Gower where he founded several churches. He is known as the 'Apostle of Gower'.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking South from the village bus stop on the Llangennith to Llanrhidian road. The village green duck pond is just visible on the right (surrounded by coarser vegetation), at the point which the road to Burry disappears into the trees on the edge of the common.
©Stephen Wilks
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking from the South
©Stephen Wilks
Dist:0.3km<br/>A hamlet (also known as Burry's Green)in the centre of Gower with a few houses and a chapel around a triangle of grass, and a pond.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The pond had no ducks (as compared with the 2005 image) but was hosting a pied wagtail. Tile House is one of two old farms in the hamlet.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Male pied wagtail (Motacilla alba) in its summer plumage, taking advantage of the insects attracted to the water.
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©Chris Henley
Dist:0.5km<br/>This track leads to a renovated property.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking SE from Burry Green, alongside the road to Burry.
©Stephen Wilks
Dist:0.5km<br/>The cottages may well be holiday lets or a second home, maybe more likely the latter, and the caravan is interesting and eyecatching.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.6km<br/>Burry Pill is a little stream that runs along the valley bottom.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.6km<br/>A lively little brook that runs in this narrow valley bottom.
©Jeremy Bolwell
Dist:0.7km<br/>Not many features in this square worthy of photographing, generally a rural farming area.
©Tony Dobbs

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