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Dist:0.3km<br/>Capel y Bedyddwyr, mae'r garreg uwchben y drysau yn cofnodi 1892 fel blwyddyn yr adeiladu. Helaethwyd yr adeilad yn 1928.

A Baptist chapel, the stone above the doors gives 1892 as the year of construction. The chapel was enlarged in 1928.

©Gerallt Pennant

Dist:0.4km<br/>Every Sunday for decades these sheds have housed travelling market stalls.

©Nigel Davies

Dist:0.6km<br/>From a distance, it seems that some new viewing shelters have been built on each side of the rugby pitch here.

Closer inspection indeed revealed that these stands *were* re-purposed bus stop shelters complete with their now non-functioning matrix display boards (inside) and a current timetable stating that the bus stop gave times from Swansea Railway Station.

One suspects that you'd be waiting a long time here if you wanted to catch the 17 the Gowerton or the 24 to Moriston Hospital...

©Hywel Williams

Dist:0.6km<br/>As seen from [[[831194]]]
The OS have recently updated their maps to remove the rails from this line but the tree growth suggests they have been gone for much longer. The cutting is wide enough for two tracks and there are now two worn paths side by side along the course.
The visible bridge is part of the more recently built A4067.

©Nigel Davies

Dist:0.7km<br/>The footpath crosses the line of an old railway below.

©Chris Eilbeck

Dist:0.7km<br/>A very steep suburban road on the northern edge of the Swansea conurbation.

©Jonathan Billinger

Dist:0.7km<br/>The decent tarmac of Garth Road ends here and a narrow footpath descends to a new footbridge allowing circuitous access to Clydach.

©Nigel Davies

Dist:0.7km<br/>The dismantled mineral line to the Mond refinery used to cross over the branch of the railway that ran up the west side of the Vale of Swansea where it crossed to join the east side branch at Glais.

©Nigel Davies

Dist:0.7km<br/>A single track road bridge on a quiet back road.

©John Phoenix

Dist:0.8km<br/>This is the view looking east from on top of the bridge here [[1455056]]
To the west this portion of the line disappears. It looks like the raised embankment forms a convenient stand to watch the games at the playing fields [[1445541]]

©Nigel Davies

Dist:0.8km<br/>Detail of plaque from [[2933991]]

©Nigel Davies

Dist:0.8km<br/>Erected by the inhabitants of Clydach in 1924 in memory of those who fell in the first world war, this is also known as Clysach War Memorial Hospital.
See also [[2934004]]

©Nigel Davies

Dist:0.8km<br/>Just don't ask what the water level is.
The aqueduct here is also a handy overflow maintaining the level in the canal. The excess falls down into the Lower Clydach River just before it joins the Tawe.

©Nigel Davies

Dist:0.8km<br/>This bridge allows access to the playing fields [[1445541]] on the other side of the river.

©Nigel Davies

Dist:0.8km<br/>The dismantled mineral line that used to run into the Mond refinery (now the Inco works [[177129]]) is now blocked off at the works fence. You can still get on to the bridge to look at the river though.

©Nigel Davies

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