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Mumbles, Glamorgan

Historical Description

Mumbles, a village in Oystermouth parish, Glamorgan, on the coast, at the W side of the mouth of Swansea Bay, under a high escarpment of mountain-limestone cliffs, and at the terminus of the Swansea and Mumbles railway, 5½ miles S by W of Swansea. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Swansea, a railway station, and a coastguard station; has long been engaged in the fishing trade; is now frequented as a watering-place; and has undergone considerable extension since the bathing-ground at Swansea was spoiled by the formation of the new docks. It is noted for fine oysters, and it has a good roadstead with 2½ fathoms water. The cliffs adjacent to it run a little eastward to a termination in two rocky islets, called Mumbles Head, and a lighthouse is on the further one of the islets, was erected in 1798, is 143 feet high, and shows a fixed white light visible at'the distance of 15 miles. A shoal, called the Mixon, is near Mumbles Head.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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