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Grovesend

Grovesend is a village in the community of Grovesend and Waungron, City and County of Swansea in Wales.

Grovesend
Grovesend · Mark Connell from Weymouth, england
The place

Grovesend is a village in the community of Grovesend and Waungron, City and County of Swansea in Wales. The community has a population of 1,131.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Grovesend

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
    Loughor Castle

    Loughor Castle is a ruined, medieval fortification located in the town of Loughor, Wales. The castle was built around 1106 by the Anglo-Norman lord Henry de Beaumont, during the Norman invasion of Wales.

    3.9 km · medieval castle in Loughor, Swansea, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Old Town Hall, Loughor

    The Old Town Hall is a former municipal building in Castle Street in Loughor, a town in Swansea, Wales. The structure, which used to be the meeting place of the local borough council, is a Grade II listed building.

    3.8 km · municipal building in Loughor, Swansea, Wales, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Grovesend

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 58 km · Bristol (BRS), 98 km · Birmingham (BHX), 178 km
Stations
Llangennech railway station, 2.8 km · Pontarddulais railway station, 3.3 km · Gorseinon bus station, 2.2 km
  • Cardiff → Grovesend
    64 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
  • Bristol → Grovesend
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Grovesend
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · £20–27
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Grovesend

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 Grovesend. 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

    72 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    221 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    418 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    438 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    473 km

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

Around it

Next door to Grovesend

Grovesend is 10 km from Swansea, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Gorseinondistrict town in Swansea, Wales3.1 km
  • Llangennechvillage and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Loughortown in Swansea, Wales, UK3.3 km
  • Pontlliwvillage in Pontlliw and Tircoed, Swansea, Wales1.9 km
  • Llwchwrcommunity in Swansea, Wales3.2 km
  • Pontlliw and Tircoedcommunity in Swansea, Wales2.1 km