Mumbles is a Victorian seaside village at the western end of Swansea Bay, joined to the city by a five-mile seafront promenade. The name is from the French les mamelles — the breasts — after the twin rounded headlands of Mumbles Head.
The village stretches along the curve of the bay, lined with ice-cream parlours, fish-and-chip shops, restaurants and small boutiques. The 1898 Mumbles Pier still juts into the sea, with a Victorian lifeboat station at its end and a strong sense of vanished resort glamour. Just beyond the village, the road climbs to Oystermouth and the ruins of Oystermouth Castle.