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Nash Point, Glamorgan

Historical Description

Nash Point, a small headland on the coast in Marcross parish, Glamorgan, 9½ miles W by N of Eoos Point, and 21 SE by E of Mumbles Head. It projects at a bend of the coast, 6½ miles SW of Cowbridge; consists of high limestone rocks, mural, broken, picturesque, and commonly called Nash Cliffs; was the scene in 1832 of the wreck of the steamer Frolic, when all persons on board, amounting to nearly 60, were loht, and is crowned by two lighthouses, erected immediately after that disaster. A dangerous shifting bank, called the Nash Sands, lies to the WNW of the headland, is 6 miles long and partly dry at low water, and has a beacon. A passage about a quarter of a mile wide is between the Sands and the shore, has a depth of three fathoms, and can be navigated in fine weather.

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

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CountyThe Vale of Glamorgan
RegionSouth Wales

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