Southgate/Pennard is a 20 minute drive from Swansea (about 8 miles) and average 90 minutes from the Severn Bridge. Once there you can forget your car as just about everything you came for is on your doorstep! Southgate has shops, Post Office, café, pub, library and Medical Centre. Swansea has cinemas, theatre (concerts, plays, ballet & opera), interesting museums, covered market with local produce, Marina and Leisure Centre. The Brecon Beacons and Black Mountains, with their caves, rivers, waterfalls, marvellous walks and views are about 45 minutes – 1 hour drive inland.

Pobbles and Three Cliffs Bay (10 mins walk down, 20 up) have swimming, surfing, prawning, fishing, acres of sand at low tide; rock pools, caves, dunes and spectacular cliffs, extremely popular with walkers and rock climbers (both amateur and experienced).

Popular family beaches include Caswell and Langland. These have life guards and other ammenities.

A variety of walks can start from the front gate, for example, around the cliffs eastwards to Hunt’s Bay ( Cornish choughs breeding here), Pwll Du and Brandy Cove; westerly across the golf course to the ruins of Pennard Castle, or along the river valley towards Three Cliffs Bay and across stepping stones to Oxwich Bay (variety of water sports here) or up to Cefn Bryn, the ‘spine ‘of Gower.