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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gorseinon like this:
GORSEINON, a chapelry in Llangafelach parish, Glamorgan; with a station on the Swansea and Llandilo railway, 8 miles NNW of Swansea. The living is annexed to Llangafelach vicarage.
Gorseinon is now part of SWANSEA District. Click here for graphs and data of how SWANSEA has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Gorseinon itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Gorseinon, in Swansea and Glamorgan | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20293
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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