The
Clyne Valley Country Park is an area of parkland in Britain, at
Swansea in south
Wales. It lies on either side of the valley of the
Clyne River and comprises an area of over 700 acres of land running from the sea at
Blackpill, Swansea, inland to
Gowerton. It is an area of once splendid woodland with enormous
beech,
ash and
oak trees mainly on the Mumbles side of the Clyne River, and, on the Swansea side, woods and mainly scrub land that has naturally regenerated a reclaimed refuse tip. The valley forms an important link in the ecological corridor that runs from the
Brecon Beacons and the
Black Mountain across commons and on into the
Gower AONB. The
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty forms part of the valley's boundary along
Clyne Common. Now dormant – apart from the rich habitat that has formed from neglect – the valley at one time was part of the
Vivian estate. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was a highly active industrial area with a long history of coal mining, mineral workings, brick making, charcoal burning, railways and canals.