Blackpill is a suburban area of Swansea, Wales. It is located beside Swansea Bay, about 3 miles south west of the city centre. Blackpill falls into the Mayals ward. The area is centered on a seafront building on Mumbles road, which once served as a station and power station for the Swansea and Mumbles Railway. Today, it houses a cafe called The Junction. The land between Mumbles road and Blackpill beach is used as Blackpill Lido, a family and children's play area which is popular in summer. Also on Mumbles road is 'The Woodman', a local pub, and Blackpill Post Office. Behind the Woodman, to the left of the main entrance to Clyne Gardens, is Clyne Chapel [1]. The chapel was built in 1907 by Graham Vivian, who owned the nearby Clyne Castle and Estate, as the private chapel for his family. Although Vivian specified that the Chapel should have no stained glass windows to distract from the beauty of its surroundings, there are within it a range of notable artefacts that he collected on his tours to Italy. Clyne Chapel is a Grade II listed building and serves as the Anglican church for the local community. The southern entrance to the Clyne valley cycle track is located just across the road from the boating lake area. This cycle track runs though the Clyne Valley Country Park to Killay, Dunvant, and Gowerton, by following the route of a former railway line, which formed the start of the Heart of Wales Line prior to the Beeching Axe of the 1960s. Sloping uphill to the west of Blackpill are Clyne Gardens , the landscaped former park of Clyne Castle. Clyne Castle, first built in the late 18th century and much altered, was for half a century a university hall, but is now converted to flats, while replacing demolished 20th-century student accommodation blocks is a new estate of luxury futuristic houses [2] built by Holder Mathias Architects and were nominated for a RIBA award [3] A Territorial Army barracks is based just off the Mumbles Road leading up to West Cross.
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