Vale of Glamorgan · Village
Part of the Barry, Penarth & the Vale of Glamorgan area guide
Cowbridge
A practical local guide to habitats worth checking and the plants most likely to need careful identification.
Map of Cowbridge
51.4618, -3.4476
The map shows the general area only. It does not mark confirmed invasive plant sites or individual properties.
About the area
Cowbridge facts
Cowbridge is a Gower-edge settlement of lanes, hedge banks, farmland and older stone boundaries. It is part of the Barry, Penarth & the Vale of Glamorgan area, within about 30 miles of Swansea.
- Cowbridge received its first charter in the thirteenth century and keeps parts of its medieval town wall.
- The market town stands on the River Thaw in the rural heart of the Vale.
- Sits on or close to the Gower Peninsula, the United Kingdom's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, designated in 1956.
- Field boundaries, lanes and older stone walls give the area its long-established rural pattern.
General local background, kept separate from the plant guidance below.
Local habitat
Where to look
Hedge banks, garden edges, lanes, ditches and nearby fields are the main places where invasive or escaping garden plants can establish around Cowbridge.
This is habitat guidance, not a claim that a particular property or site is infested.
