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The other nine are all ecclesiastical monuments. The 26 post-medieval monuments are more diverse, including industrial and maritime sites, but also leats, quarries, a mill and even an observatory and an orchid house. All of the Swansea administrative area lies within the historic county of Glamorgan. Scheduled monuments have statutory protection.
Of the tens of thousands of scheduled monuments in the UK, most are inconspicuous archaeological sites, but some are large ruins. According to the 1979 Act, a monument cannot be a structure which is occupied as a dwelling, used as a place of worship or protected under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 .
Scheduled monuments (also known as scheduled ancient monuments, or SAMs) are sites of archaeological importance with specific legal protection against damage or development. The list of such monuments in Wales is maintained by Cadw : Welsh Historic Monuments, an executive agency within the Welsh National Assembly. [ 1 ]
The City and County of Swansea is a principal area in south Wales.It covers an area of 380 km 2 (150 sq mi) [1] and in 2021 the population was approximately 237,800. [2]The Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales was established in 2002 and given statutory status in 2022.
List of scheduled monuments in Swansea This page was last edited on 9 December 2016, at 21:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Pages in category "Lists of Scheduled Monuments in Wales" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... List of scheduled monuments in Swansea; T.
List of scheduled monuments in Swansea; C. Cefn Bryn; P. Parc Cwm long cairn; S. Swansea War Memorial This page was last edited on 9 December 2016, at 21:57 ...
The first Schedule of monuments resulted from a nationwide inquiry among interested local antiquarian societies. In order to add monuments to this Schedule, the First Inspector of Ancient Monuments, General Pitt-Rivers, [2] travelled the British Isles examining the known sites, and searching for new ones. Unfortunately, only limited information ...