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Dunvant

Dunvant is a suburban district and community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, and falls within the Dunvant ward.

The place

Dunvant is a suburban district and community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, and falls within the Dunvant ward. It is situated in a valley some 4.5 miles west of Swansea city centre.

The population as of the 2011 census was 4,383. It adjoins the area of Killay.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dunvant

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Gower College Swansea

    Gower College Swansea is a further education college in Swansea, Wales. It was formed in 2010 by the merger of Gorseinon College and Swansea College.

    3.8 km · further education college · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sketty Hall

    Sketty Hall is a venue used for hosting social functions, business functions and conferences in Singleton Park, Swansea, south Wales. The original building was built in the early 18th century as a private house.

    3.8 km · grade II listed building in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Dunvant

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 55 km · Bristol (BRS), 95 km · Birmingham (BHX), 182 km
Stations
Swansea Airport, 3.2 km · Gowerton railway station, 2.4 km · Gowerton South railway station, 2.2 km
  • Cardiff → Dunvant
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–10
  • Bristol → Dunvant
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Dunvant
    174 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · £20–27
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dunvant

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Dunvant. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in}} {{go | name | url | address 51.713889 | long | phone | hours | wikidata=Q542734 | lastedit=2022-06-25 | content= to the west near Burry Port, handles private aircraft and offers charter flights from destinations in UK and Europe.

From Wikivoyage: Swansea, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    66 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    217 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    420 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    445 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    480 km

If you know how people move in Dunvant – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Dunvant

Dunvant is 7 km from Swansea, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Gorseinondistrict town in Swansea, Wales3.7 km
  • Gowertonvillage in Wales2.5 km
  • Skettydistrict and community of Swansea, Wales, UK3.4 km
  • Killaycommunity in Swansea, Wales, UK1.7 km
  • Llwchwrcommunity in Swansea, Wales3.7 km
  • Cockettsuburb and community in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom3.9 km