Swansea

Swansea is a coastal city in south Wales at the mouth of the River Tawe. It grew around a castle built around 1106 by Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Warwick, as the centre of the lordship of Gower, whose lords gave it its first charter. In the 18th and 19th centuries it became a world centre of copper smelting, and it gained city status in 1969.