Glais

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Glais
The village of Glais in winter as seen from a local mountain known as Glais Mountain.
Glais Location within Swansea
Population	838 (2011 Census) - outdated
OS grid reference	SN70250048
Community	Glais Birchgrove Clydach
Principal area	Swansea
Preserved county	West Glamorgan
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Swansea
Postcode district	SA7
Dialling code	01792
Police	South Wales
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Swansea East
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Swansea East
List of places UK Wales Swansea 51°41′17″N 3°52′42″W / 51.688085°N 03.878339°W / 51.688085; -03.878339

Glais is a semi-rural village in Swansea, South Wales. Nant-y-Pal is a stream running through the middle of Glais. It divides the village into two electoral wards: to the north of the stream, Glais is under the Clydach Electoral Ward; to the south, Glais is under the Llansamlet Electoral Ward. The village is shared between the communities of Clydach and Birchgrove. Glais is within the Swansea East UK Parliament constituency and is represented by the Labour MP, Carolyn Harris. ^[1] The population is a little more than 1,000.^{[citation needed]}

The word 'glais' is one of the Welsh words for stream and is a common element in Welsh place-names. Other locations containing the word glais occur as a composite element referring to a single particular name.^[2]