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Swansea Ramblers Walk

To the White Chapel on Gellionen Mountain

Pre 2008

Leader: Pat Mindt

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Photographs

The walk starts along the bank of the Swansea Canal to Trebanos

A couple of our members have spotted something interesting in the water ...
a fish perhaps?

At Trebanos we stop for a quick coffee break

Coffee in a shady spot

Then we start up the hillside

Quite a steep climb to get to the top

We reached the chapel after a walk across the top of Gellionen Mountain.
It was built in 1692 and rebuilt in 1801. It is known locally as the White Chapel

The wall plaque tells us the chapel was built as a place of worship
for the use of a society of Protestant Dissenters

As we looked around the outside of the chapel,
the Minister, The Reverend Eirion phillips arrived.
He not only was kind enough to let us inside the chapel ...

but also gave us a brief history of the bulding and information about current services.
Gellionen is the oldest non-conformist chapel in the area

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