[3] Morriston lies three miles northeast of the Swansea city centre and is considered part of the urbanised region.

It is the most populous of Swansea's electoral divisions and is situated close to other communities including Plasmarl, Treboeth, Llansamlet, Cwmrhydyceirw, Clase, Ynystawe and Ynysforgan.

Morriston is in the Lower Swansea Valley, adjoining the River Tawe, on terrain sloping gently downward to the east and steeply upwards to the west.

"[4] The Church of St. John and Tabernacle Chapel remain important town landmarks, along with Morriston Hospital and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), both major employers in the area.

The remainder of Morriston can be divided into three areas: The heart of the town retail community is at Woodfield Street, which consists of many small shops and pubs.

The design was evolved by three prominent figures in the area: the minister, Emlyn Jones; the architect, John Humphrey; and the contractor, Daniel Edwards.

[citation needed] It once incorporated a large ornate bandstand, swimming baths, lido, aviary, cricket pitch, changing rooms, shop, and even a 9-hole golf course.

Morriston was constructed as "Wales' earliest planned industrial village" and was laid out on a grid pattern designed by William Edwards[8] and named after its founder, Sir John Morris.

Morriston was initially constructed for the workers of the tinplate and copper industries that built up along the banks of the River Tawe in the 18th century.

Tin-plating had almost vanished from the area by the end of the Second World War, with production in South West Wales concentrated at new works in Felindre and Port Talbot.

[12] The Wales Book of the Year-winning novelist Stevie Davies was born in Salisbury, England, but her family moved to Morriston when she was a week old.

Although her RAF family left Morriston two years later, Davies would return there to stay with her grandmother every summer and still consider it her hometown.

(Cwmrhydyceirw) Rangers were fiercely contested, with scores of supporters lining the pitch at Tir Canol whenever the two sides met.

Welsh rugby international Shane Williams was born in Morriston, for example, but grew up in Glanamman in the Amman Valley.