Landore Explained

Country:Wales
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Static Image Caption:Liberty stadium in Landore
Coordinates:51.64°N -3.94°W
Official Name:Landore
Glandŵr
Population:6,168
Unitary Wales:Swansea
Lieutenancy Wales:West Glamorgan
Constituency Westminster:Swansea East
Constituency Welsh Assembly:Swansea East
Post Town:SWANSEA
Postcode District:SA1
Postcode District1:SA6
Postcode Area:SA
Postcode Area1:SA
Dial Code:01792
Os Grid Reference:SS656957

Landore (Welsh: Glandŵr) is a district and community in Swansea, Wales. The district falls in the Landore council ward. A mainly residential area, it is located about 2.5 miles north of Swansea city centre. The north-easterly part of Landore is known as Morfa. There have been a number of new developments in the 21st century, such as the Liberty Stadium, now the Swansea.com Stadium, and the Morfa Shopping Park, which opened in 2005. It had a population of 6,168 as of the 2011 UK census.

Facilities

A new £1.5m bowls stadium, the Landore Bowls Stadium opened in early 2008 becoming the home of the Swansea Indoor Bowls Club. The venue hosted the World Indoor Singles and Mixed Pairs Championships in April 2008.[1]

Great Western Railway's Landore Depot is used for servicing Inter City 125 passenger trains. Landore once had a railway station, a stop on the South Wales Railway located near the Swansea Loop East Junction. The Landore Viaduct is a prominent landmark.[2] [3]

Landore has a park and ride with 550 spaces. The associated bus service, which is operated by First Cymru as route 501,[4] uses a bus lane to the railway station.[5]

In September 2013, the Swansea City Landore Training Academy was opened. The facility cost £6 million and is home to the club's reserve and academy teams, including an indoor pitch as well as grass and Artificial turf outdoor fields.[6]

Industrial heritage

The first copper works in the Swansea area was opened in Landore in 1717,[7] and in the 1860s Carl Wilhelm Siemens perfected the open hearth furnace at a local works.[7] By 1873 the area had one of the world's largest steelworks,[7] and industrial pollution in Landore inspired the doggerel it came to pass in days of yore / the Devil chanced upon Landore. / Quoth he:"by all this fume and stink / I can't be far from home, I think."[7] Landore has a number of listed buildings from its industrial past. There is a campaign to make the remaining historical buildings in the Lower Swansea valley, including Landore, a World Heritage Site.[8]

Grade II listed buildings include:[9]

Grade II* listed buildings:

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.midwalesonline.co.uk/news.cfm?id=13357 World bowls tourney at new Swansea stadium
  2. http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/collections/pamphlets/document_service/HE1_42/00000481/doc.pdf Local Time Tables for the Great Western Railway June 1881
  3. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=190-2515_2-1&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18#-1 The National Archives | Access to Archives
  4. http://www4.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=3289 Landore Park & Ride
  5. http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=20684 Work starts on rapid bus route
  6. Web site: Swansea City Academy - About Us. Swansea City A.F.C.. 21 December 2017.
  7. The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press 2008
  8. http://www.swanseahistoryweb.org.uk/ Swansea History Web Home Page
  9. http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1524 City and County of Swansea: Listed Building Index