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.
Maps
Online maps of Nash Point 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: