The Worm's Head, Gower peninsula (Crown copyright 2018 / Visit Wales)
Looking for some Great British adventure inspiration? You're in the right place. Here you'll get an independent, ad-free lowdown on Britain's top 50 adventure locations - the online yin to the paper yang of our Joyously Busy Great British Adventure Map.
Why Go To Gower?
Because it's amazing and you should. Just some of things you can do in Gower that you can't do anywhere else...
Enjoy some of the best surfing in Britain on this small but perfectly formed peninsula in easy reach of Cardiff and Swansea
Walk, swim and generally luxuriate on one of the country's most beautiful stretches of coastline, with legendary Worm's Head, Three Cliffs Bay and Llangennith Beach among the many to choose from.
Proudly tell people down the pub that you've been to somewhere so stunning it was designated Britain’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956.
Want to find out more? Read on for great photos, articles, videos, top tips and other content to fire up your adventure appetite. Got a question? Ask away.
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Britain’s first AONB, the 19 mile-long Gower peninsula starts at Mumbles and extends westwards. Famous for its beautiful coastline and beaches from vast Rhossili Bay to tiny, secluded Pwll Du, it's an impressive place. Inland there's sheltered woodland and some nice, grassy hills, but the highlights are pretty much the entire coast: Worm's Head, Three Cliffs Bay, Devil's Bridge, Bluepool Corner, Llangennith Beach, Slade Sands.
Not many pebbles on Pobbles Beach...
The essential journey for walkers in Gower is the coast path, which covers entire perimeter of the AONB (part of the Wales Coast Path if you're up for a proper lengthy hike).
“A secret that people hug to themselves.”
Beach fun on the Gower peninsula, Wales (Crown copyright 2018 / Visit Wales)
Getting To Gower, Maps & Guides
Getting there: Drive from Cardiff (1.5 hrs), or train (2 hrs). Drive from London (3.5 hrs), or train (4.5 hrs).
Travel times from where you are: See the Gower on Google Maps.
Maps: Find the right Ordnance Survey maps and / or get a month's free subscription to their excellent OS Maps app.
Guidebooks: No dedicated guidebooks - best bet is the Rough Guide to Wales or Lonely Planet's equivalent.
Walking route guidance: have a look at the Wales Coast Path's Gower sections.
Tourist board: dedicated pages on Visit Swansea or Visit Wales.
Even More Gower Adventure Inspiration
Read about the best Gower walks from the Telegraph, the definitive Gower beach guide from Wales Online or this from Wanderlust on surfing Gower.
Wales Online also weigh in with this guide, and Epic TV make the very valid claim that the Gower is an overlooked climbing destination.
What Next?
Click here to see 49 other Great British adventure locations and tell us about your adventures, plans and suggestions for these pages.
Britain's Best Outdoorsy Bits... Mapped!
Liking what you see, but fancy keeping it old school with an actual paper map? Our Joyously Busy Great British Adventure Map features all of Britain's best outdoorsy bits (including the Top 50), plus some enjoyably random and vaguely useful stuff too. Available either as a 2-sided fold-out map or a framed wall map (office furniture and fake plants not included).
