Ilston
Pennard Pwll that runs to the sea and onto three cliffs, runs through Ilston where this beautiful ford leads through the woods towards Ilston Quarry, containing a carboniferous limestone quarry, plantation, limestone grassland, scrub and surrounding woodland. This is an important geological site, now a nature reserve run by the Gower Wildlife Trust accessible by foot over the ford.
Ilston Church is beautifully situated by Pennard Pwll which you have to cross to gain access to the grounds The first time that there is a mention of Ilston church is in 1119 which was donated in 1221 by John de Breos to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem before its was handed back to the Crown during the Dissolution in 1540.
Ilston Church holds a key place in the ecclesiastical history of Wales and Britain. For it was here, in the village and its valley, that one of the earliest Baptist Churches was founded. Congregations from all over the Gower and as far away as Bynea gathered to worship in 1649.
Ilston Church is beautifully situated by Pennard Pwll which you have to cross to gain access to the grounds The first time that there is a mention of Ilston church is in 1119 which was donated in 1221 by John de Breos to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem before its was handed back to the Crown during the Dissolution in 1540.
Ilston Church holds a key place in the ecclesiastical history of Wales and Britain. For it was here, in the village and its valley, that one of the earliest Baptist Churches was founded. Congregations from all over the Gower and as far away as Bynea gathered to worship in 1649.
