Tycoch (also written Ty-coch) is a suburban district of the

City and County of Swansea Swansea (; cy, Abertawe ) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea ( cy, links=no, Dinas a Sir Abertawe). The city is the twenty-fifth largest in ...

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. It is situated in the Sketty ward of the city, north-west of

Sketty The suburban district of Sketty ( cy, Sgeti) is about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the Swansea city centre on Gower Road. It falls within the Sketty council ward of Swansea. It is also a community. Description The area approximates to the Vi ...

Cross. The area is chiefly residential. Housing around Carnglas Square is mostly pre-

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, while that the higher ground at Llwyn Mawr dates from the 1970s onwards.

Amenities

There are several shops and other commercial premises in and around Carnglas Square (the junction of Carnglas Road, Harlech Crescent, and Ty-coch Road) including a sub post office, a newsagent, a computer shop, an Indian takeaway, and a

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/ bistro, but no

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. There is also a pharmacy, a hairdresser for ladies and gents, a professional tuition centre, a print shop, a computer specialist shop, a tanning salon, a clothes clinic and cleaners. The corner shop/newsagent closed on 8 December 2014 and re-opened as a Co-Operative small supermarket in March 2015. The building was extended and refurbished. Sketty Primary School is in Llwyn Mawr Close, Carnglas, while

tertiary education Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including univer ...

is provided at the Tycoch campus of

Gower College Swansea Gower College Swansea ( cy, Coleg Gŵyr Abertawe) is a further education college in Swansea, Wales. It was formed in 2010 by the merger of Gorseinon College and Swansea College Mark Jones, previously principal of Bridgend College, became princ ...

(the former

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) at the junction of Ty-coch Road and Vivian Road, not far from Sketty Cross. The

Church in Wales The Church in Wales ( cy, Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is an Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses. The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed archiepiscopal see, but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops. The pos ...

opened All Souls Church in Tycoch in 1957. There are in addition two chapels in the area.

Cefn Coed Hospital Cefn Coed Hospital ( cy, Ysbyty Cefn Coed) is a mental-health facility in Swansea, Wales. It is managed by the Swansea Bay University Health Board. History The hospital was designed by George Thomas Hine and Hallam Carter-Pegg using a compact ar ...

is located in the northern part of Tycoch at the boundary with

Cockett Cockett ( cy, Y Cocyd) is a district and community in Swansea, Wales falling within Cockett ward. It is located about north-west of Swansea city centre. It includes the eastern half of Gowerton. Cockett, in common with much of western Swansea ...

. Sports superstars Scott Mackay and Robert Phillips, and famous mariner Andrew Roberts all hail from the area.

External links

Sketty primary SchoolGower College SwanseaCefn Coed HospitalSwan CD Computers, TycochKip McGrath Education Centres
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