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Dist:0.3km<br/>This is the view upstream from the road bridge.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:0.4km<br/>Gelwir y llecyn hwn yng Ngarnswllt 'Y Sgwt' am resymau amlwg. Enw'r ffrwd yw 'Garnant' (< Garwnant)ac fe'i rhed o dan yr heol fach sy'n arwain o Garnswllt at Bontarddulais. The name of this location in Garnswllt for obvious reasons is 'Y Sgwt' (trans 'The Waterfall'). The name of the stream is Garnant < Garwnant (trans. Wild stream)and it flows beneath a minor road which leads from Garnswllt to Pontarddulais.
©Alan Richards
Dist:0.5km<br/>The school (and the whole village) is covered in "save our school" slogans. Garnswllt is a small community on the distant edge of the City & County of Swansea and the school is probably facing closure.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.0km<br/>Taken from the Garnswllt-Pontarddulais road one morning. The river can be seen meandering in the middle distance, with the line of the railway a little closer. Plas Uchaf is the building on the far side of the valley, above and to the left of centre. Tycroes is in the far distance.
©Ewen
Dist:1.3km southeast<br/>Not quite as lonely as the one at SN6807, but still not too much around.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.3km southeast<br/>Capel Gerasim, addoldy diarffordd y Bedyddwyr yn nhreflan Cwmcerdinen. Yn ystod 2011 bydd yr aelodau yn dathlu dau gan mlynedd ers adeiladu'r capel yn 1811. Serch hynny, oherwydd prinder aelodau a gwasanaethau anfynych mae dyfodol y capel yn ansicr. Gerasim Baptist Chapel (built 1811), a remote meeting house located in the hamlet of Cwmcerdinen. During 2011 the members will be celebrating two hundred years of worship at this little chapel. However, due to dwindling numbers and infrequent services its future is uncertain.
©Alan Richards
Dist:1.3km north<br/>The sewage works has been built just down river from the town, across the border in the next borough. Let the county of Swansea deal with it.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.3km northwest<br/>Mae Plas Cwrtyceidrim (hefyd 'Plas Llanedy' a 'Plas Mawr') yn dyddio o'r 16g ac y bu'n gartref teuluol i'r Penriaid. Yn 1736 a 1756, yn eu tro, bu William Penry a'i fab, Henry yn siryddion y Sir. Aelod amlycaf o'r teulu oedd David Penry (1660-1721?). Yn ol y son aeth i gyfarfod cudd o anghydffurfwyr yn Ffarm Wern Chwith, yr Hendy, ond yn lle bradychu Stephen Hughes, Apostol Sir Gaerfyrddin, i'r awdurdodau cafodd droedigaeth a daeth yn aelod amlwg o'r achos hwnnw ac ef a fu'n bennaf gyfrifol am godi'r Hen Gapel. Am dros hanner can mlynedd bu Cwrtyceidrim yn wag ac yn adfeilio'n gyflym ond oddeutu 2005 fe'i hadnewyddwyd i'w hen ogoniant. Cwrtyceidrim Mansion (aka 'Plas Llanedy' and 'Plas Mawr) dates from the C16 and was the ancestral home of the Penry Family. In 1736 and 1756 William Penry and his son, Henry, were sheriffs of Carmarthenshire respectively. The most notable member of the family, however, was David Penry (1660-1721?). According to tradition he went to a secret meeting of nonconformist worshippers at Wern Chwith Farm, Yr Hendy, but instead of betraying Stephen Hughes, the Apostle of Carmarthenshire, to the authorities he had an instant conversion and became a prominent member of that flock. He was mainly responsible for the building of yr Hen Gapel Chapel. For over 50 years Cwrtyceidrim remained empty and had become a sad ruin; however, circa 2005, it was completely restored to its former glory.
©Alan Richards
Dist:1.5km northwest<br/>
©John Duckfield
Dist:1.5km southwest<br/>This is the ornamental front garden of Hendrewen farm, seen from the road one afternoon.
©Ewen
Dist:1.5km northeast<br/>Pylons track between Pen-y-Cwar and Pentwyn Mawr.
©John Duckfield
Dist:1.5km south<br/>This tiny cairn is on its own mound where faint paths cross on the common. The view is southwest out towards the Gower peninsula.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.7km south-southwest<br/>Trig point on the path over the common on Graig Fawr, between Pontardawe & Garnswllt. The Gower peninsula is visible on the horizon, and to the far right is the upper Lliedi reservoir north of Llanelli.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.8km south<br/>This is a portion of the outer ring of the earthworks on the common. Other eartworks and circles in these mountains seem to be about 10 feet in diameter. This outer ring is more like 40 or 50.
©Nigel Davies
Dist:1.8km south<br/>This is the small inner ring of the earthwork. Just visible on the grass on the right is a small cairn on the outer ring. The rings are not concentric, the inner ring is very close to the outer at the south end.
©Nigel Davies

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