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Llansamlet

Llansamlet is a suburban district and community of Swansea, Wales, falling into the Llansamlet ward.

Llansamlet
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The place

Llansamlet is a suburban district and community of Swansea, Wales, falling into the Llansamlet ward. The area is centred on the A48 road and the M4 motorway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llansamlet

10 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
    Liberty Stadium

    The Swansea.com Stadium is an all-seated multi-use sports stadium and conferencing venue located in the Landore area of Swansea, Wales, hosting both rugby union and football. The stadium opened in 2005 and was named the Liberty Stadium.

    3.4 km · Stadium in Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Landore viaduct

    The Landore viaduct is a railway viaduct over the Swansea valley and the River Tawe at Landore in South Wales. It provides a link between Swansea city center and the West Wales Line to the South Wales Main Line.

    3.1 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Crymlyn Bog

    Crymlyn Bog is a nature reserve and a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest of international significance, near Swansea, south Wales. It is the largest area of lowland fen in Wales and lies immediately to the eastern side of Kilvey Hill just north of the industrial area of Crymlyn Burrows.

    2.9 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tabernacle Welsh Independent Chapel

    The Tabernacle Chapel, also known as Libanus Chapel, is a Grade I listed chapel on Woodfield Street in Morriston, Swansea, Wales.

    1.9 km · Independent chapel in Morriston · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Morris Castle

    Morris Castle or Castle Graig is a ruined residential building situated on the Cnap-llwyd common in the Trewyddfa area of Swansea, Wales. Constructed by Sir John Morris to house the families of workers, it is one of the earliest examples of a tenement building.

    3.1 km · residential tower block in Swansea, Wales · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mynyddbach Chapel

    Mynyddbach Chapel is the oldest Independent chapel in Swansea, Wales. In about 1640 a group of people met on the Sabbath and on week nights to read the Scriptures and have prayer in "Cilfwnwr" farmhouse near Llangyfelach and later at "Tirdwncyn".

    3.9 km · Independent chapel in Treboeth, Swansea, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Pluck Lake

    Pluck Lake is a lake to the east of Swansea city centre in the Morfa area north of Kilvey Hill. It forms part of Kilvey Community Woodland.

    2.7 km · lake in Morfa, Swansea, Wales, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Nant-y-Fendrod

    Nant-y-fendrod, often known simply as the Fendrod, is a small stream near Swansea in South Wales. It is a tributary of the River Tawe, and has two tributaries, the Nant Bran and the Nant-y-Ffin.

    1.7 km · reservoir near Swansea · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Siloh Welsh Congregational Chapel

    The New Siloh Congregational Chapel, also known as the Siloh Welsh Independent Chapel or simply the New Siloh Chapel, is a Grade II* listed chapel building at the top of Siloh Hill in Landore, Swansea, Wales. The prefix 'New' distinguishes it from the nearby Old Siloh Chapel, built in 1829.

    3.7 km · Congregational chapel in Landore · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Cwmgelli cemetery

    Cwmgelli Cemetery, also known as Cwmgelly Cemetery, is a cemetery situated in the Treboeth area of Swansea, Wales. It is listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, where it is designated Grade II for "its historic interest as a small Victorian garden cemetery".

    3.3 km · cemetery in Swansea, Wales · 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 Llansamlet

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 48 km · Bristol (BRS), 87 km · Birmingham (BHX), 171 km
Stations
Coedffranc, 3.1 km · Skewen railway station, 3.5 km · Llansamlet railway station, 900 m
  • Cardiff → Llansamlet
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 16m · £6–8
  • Bristol → Llansamlet
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–15
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Llansamlet
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £19–25
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Llansamlet

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 Llansamlet. 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

    76 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    211 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    427 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    443 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    478 km

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

Around it

Next door to Llansamlet

Llansamlet is 6 km from Swansea, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Skewenvillage in Wales3.6 km
  • Birchgrovevillage and community in Swansea, Wales1.5 km
  • Clydachtown and community in Swansea, Wales3.2 km
  • Mynydd-Bachsuburb and community in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom3.1 km
  • Landorecommunity in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Bon-y-maenvillage and community in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom1.8 km