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Places of Interest

Some 6 km (4 mi) north of Barry, and not far from the 20-hectare (50-acre) Dyffryn Gardens, is St Lythans, where there are two Neolithic burial sites, some 2,500 years old. Near Rhoose International Airport, a short distance west of Barry, is Porthkerry Country Park, a valley with wooded hills and cliffs. Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, near Penarth, is one of the borough’s most popular visitor attractions, with over 90 hectares (222 acres) of lakes, woodlands, and meadows. A medieval village was excavated in the park in the 1980s and the ancient community has been recreated as a living heritage project, with costumed villagers working the land and specially bred livestock and cattle of the Middle Ages occupying the paddocks and fields. At Llantwit Major a church with a 1,000-year-old font stands on the site of the monastery. From the headland of Nash Point, on the coast west of Llantwit Major, the Gower Peninsula can be seen across Swansea Bay, and the English counties of Somerset and Devon across the Bristol Channel.