Swansea Bay, Glamorgan
Historical Description
Swansea Bay, a bay in Glamorgan, entering from Bristol Channel, with a width of 9½ miles, between the Scar and Mumbles Point, and going thence 5½ miles, north-by-eastward, to the mouth of the river Neath.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Swansea Bay are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers online: