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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Aerial view of a large wildfire burning across Fairwood Common on Gower, with a line of orange flames advancing across dry grassland and a thick plume of grey smoke rising into the sky, with a road and fields visible in the distance

GOWER: Fire crews tackle two wildfires in 24 hours -Fairwood Common and Cefn Bryn – as bank holiday fire risk soars

Fire crews have tackled two major wildfires on the Gower Peninsula within 24 hours — a four-hectare blaze at Fairwood…

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Kit Peters

1st May 2026

30th April 2026

GOWER: The UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty turns 70 – here’s why it’s still one of Britain’s most special places

A woman sits on a large limestone rock on Cefn Bryn common on the Gower Peninsula, watching a golden sunset over the Bristol Channel, with rolling green grassland and scattered rocks stretching into the foreground

Environment and Farming

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11th June 2021

Council to spend £350k on Gower visitor and environment improvements

Swansea Council has secured £350,000 of Welsh Government grants to help protect Gower's natural beauty at some of the region's…