Blackpill (or
Black Pill) is a suburban area of
SwanseaSwansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands...
, south
WalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It is also an elective region of the European Union...
. It is located beside Swansea Bay, about 3 miles south west of the city centre.
Blackpill falls into the
Mayals wardMayals is the name of an electoral ward of the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. It is also part of the Mumbles Community.The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following geographical areas: Blackpill, Mayals and part of West Cross, in the parliamentary constituency of Swansea West...
.
The area is centered around a seafront building on Mumbles road which once served as a station and power station for the
Swansea and Mumbles RailwayThe Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the world's first passenger railway service , located in Swansea, Wales.Originally built under an Act of Parliament of 1804 to move limestone from the quarries of Mumbles to Swansea and to the markets beyond, it carried the world's first fare-paying railway...
. Today it houses a cafe called "The Junction". The land between Mumbles road and Blackpill beach is used as Blackpill Lido, a family and childrens play area with popular in summer.
Blackpill (or
Black Pill) is a suburban area of
SwanseaSwansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands...
, south
WalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It is also an elective region of the European Union...
. It is located beside Swansea Bay, about 3 miles south west of the city centre.
Blackpill falls into the
Mayals wardMayals is the name of an electoral ward of the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. It is also part of the Mumbles Community.The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following geographical areas: Blackpill, Mayals and part of West Cross, in the parliamentary constituency of Swansea West...
.
The area is centered around a seafront building on Mumbles road which once served as a station and power station for the
Swansea and Mumbles RailwayThe Swansea and Mumbles Railway was the world's first passenger railway service , located in Swansea, Wales.Originally built under an Act of Parliament of 1804 to move limestone from the quarries of Mumbles to Swansea and to the markets beyond, it carried the world's first fare-paying railway...
. Today it houses a cafe called "The Junction". The land between Mumbles road and Blackpill beach is used as Blackpill Lido, a family and childrens play area with popular in summer. Also on Mumbles road is the Woodman's, a local pub and Blackpill Post Office serving the local community. Behind the Woodman's to the left of the main entrance to Clyne Gardens is Clyne Chapel
http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/~s442/clynechapel.htm. The chapel was built in 1907 by Graham Vivian, who owned the nearby Clyne Castle and Estate, as the private chapel for his family. Although Vivian specified that the Chapel should have no stained glass windows to distract from the beauty of its surroundings, there are within it a range of notable artefacts that he collected on his tours to Italy. Clyne Chapel is a Grade II listed building and serves as the Anglican church for the local community.
The southern entrance to the Clyne valley cycle track is located just across the road from the boating lake area. This cycle track runs though the
Clyne Valley Country ParkThe Clyne Valley Country Park is an area of parkland in Swansea, Wales. As its name suggests, it lies in a valley. The valley consists of a wet valley floor and dense woodland on the hillsides....
to
KillayKillay is the name of a suburb and local government community in Swansea, Wales. Killay has its own community council. The village is set high above sea level, about 3.5 miles west of Swansea city centre....
,
DunvantDunvant is a suburban district 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.-History:...
, and
GowertonThe village of Gowerton is situated about 4 miles north west of Swansea city centre, Wales. Gowerton is often known as the gateway to Gower. Gowerton's original name was Ffosfelin...
, by following the route of a former railway line, which formed the start of the
Heart of Wales Line|}The Heart of Wales Line is the railway line from Llanelli in South Wales to Craven Arms in Shropshire and runs through, as the name suggests, some of the heartlands of Wales. It crossed the earlier Mid Wales Railway at Builth Road, but was unable to get any nearer to the town of Builth Wells. It...
prior to the
Beeching AxeThe Beeching Axe is an informal name for the British Government's attempt in the 1960s to reduce the cost of running British Railways, the nationalised railway system in the United Kingdom. The name is that of the main author of The Reshaping of British Railways, Dr Richard Beeching...
of the 1960s.
Sloping uphill to the west of Blackpill are
Clyne GardensClyne Gardens is a botanical garden located in Swansea, Wales, UK. The current park was formed from the landscaped gardens created by Glynn Vivian who purchased the castle in 1860.. The estate passed to his nephew Algernon, 'The Admiral' in 1921 who owned it until his death in 1952. He had the...
(Gerddi Clun), the landscaped former park of Clyne Castle.
Clyne CastleClyne Castle is a grade II listed building situated on a hill overlooking Swansea Bay, adjacent to the Clyne valley, near Blackpill, Swansea.It was originally built in 1791 by Richard Phillips, a wealthy Carmarthenshire landowner. The Castle was subsequently remodelled by later owners...
, first built in the late 18th century and much altered, was for half a century a university hall, but is now converted to flats, while replacing demolished 20th-century student accommodation blocks is a new estate of luxury futuristic houses
http://www.clynethehouses.com/ built by Holder Mathias Architects and were nominated for a
RIBARiba means usury and is generally forbidden in Islamic economic jurisprudence fiqh.There are two types of riba discussed by Islamic jurists, that prohibited by the Quran and that prohibited in the Sunnah .-Background:Riba was forbidden in the Medinan society of...
award
http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=2136
A Territorial Army barracks is based just off the Mumbles Road leading up to
West CrossWest Cross is a suburban area of Swansea, Wales, located to the south of Swansea city centre, near Mumbles falling within the West Cross ward....
.
Leisure
Blackpill has leisure facilities such as a former boating lake, which was located here for about thirty years and has now been converted in to a shallow swimming pool. North of the boating lake is a mini golf course sandwiched between a carriageway and cycle track. Blackpill Pitch-and-Putt, despite its name, is actually located within the
SkettySketty is the name of an electoral ward, a community and a suburb in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK. The community is coterminous with the electoral ward....
electoral ward and
CommunityIn biological terms, a community is a group of interacting organisms sharing an environment.In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of...
. The course is colloquially known in some quarters as "Royal Ashleigh" due to its proximity to Ashleigh Road and is in fact a small municipally-owned links course. It is often advertised as a nine-hole course, but in fact has ten par-three holes. Along the edge of the course, bordering the seafront footpath and bicycle track, is an obstacle course for BMX bikers and skate-boarders. On the West Cross side of Blackpill is a recreation ground containing a ramp for BMX bikers and skateboarders to practice their aerial stunts on.
Blackpill Beach
Blackpill Beach is a known for wildlife and wildlife watchers. Large numbers of wading birds and a variety of gulls, some rare, gather here at high tide. The beach and the stream that flows out of the area is a designated
Site of Special Scientific InterestA Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom. SSSIs are the basic building block of site-based nature conservation legislation and most other legal nature/geological conservation designations in Great Britain are based...
.
Future plans
The local council has plans to improve the leisure facilities in the area. Proposals include a new visitor centre for bird watchers at the mouth of the Blackpill Stream, additional car parking, upgrades to the Blackpill Lido to create a children's water park, a cycle hire centre, and improvements to the waterfront skate park.
http://www.swansea.gov.uk/media/pdf/7/r/Swansea_Bay_Strategy_Action_Plan_27th_June_2007.pdf
A new foot- and cycle-bridge has been proposed, crossing over the dual carriageway, to connect the waterfront promenade to the cycle track in the Clyne Valley. A fourth
park and ridePark and ride facilities are car parks with connections to public transport that allow commuters and others wishing to travel into city centres to leave their personal vehicles in a car park and transfer to a bus, rail system , or carpool for the rest of their trip...
site for
SwanseaSwansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower peninsula and the Lliw uplands...
is planned to be located at the existing car park at the entrance to the
Clyne Valley Country ParkThe Clyne Valley Country Park is an area of parkland in Swansea, Wales. As its name suggests, it lies in a valley. The valley consists of a wet valley floor and dense woodland on the hillsides....
. This new park-and-ride facility would serve both
MumblesMumbles otherwise The Mumbles – is a village in Swansea, Wales with adjacent headland stretching into Swansea Bay. The village includes the ruin of Oystermouth Castle and the Mumbles Lighthouse...
and the
city centreSwansea city centre in Swansea, Wales, contains the main shopping, leisure and nightlife district in Swansea. The city centre covers much of the Castle ward including the area around Oxford Street, Castle Square, and the Quadrant Shopping Centre; Alexandra Road, High Street, Wind Street and the...
.
http://www.swansea.gov.uk/media/pdf/7/r/Swansea_Bay_Strategy_Action_Plan_27th_June_2007.pdf
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