Oxwich Bay
Oxwich Bay is a bay on the south coast of the Gower Peninsula in Glamorgan.
Its landscape features sand dunes, salt marshes and woodland. Oxwich Bay includes a 2.5-mile long sandy beach, accessible from the village of Oxwich. It is a popular spot for swimming and watersports including diving, sailing, water skiing and windsurfing. There is a public footpath along the cliffs from Oxwich Bay, around Oxwich Point, and to Port Eynon Bay.
A wetland site at the rear of the dunes forms Oxwich Burrows National Nature Reserve.[1] The dunes are crossed by a small stream called Nicholaston Pill. The bay ends at the eastern end with the cliffs of High Tor; but at low tide, a continuous sandy beach connects with Three Cliffs Bay beyond.
Submarine cables leave the mainland of Britain from Oxwich. These include the SOLAS cable across the Irish Sea, and the TAT-11 and Gemini North transatlantic telephone cables. These latter two do not terminate here but instead continue on to France (TAT-11) and Devon (Gemini).
Buses run every couple of hours between Oxwich and Port Eynon.
On 1 February 2007, The Travel Magazine named Oxwich beach the most beautiful in Britain.[2]
Outside links
- Map: SS513874
- Location map: 51°33’57"N, 4°8’48"W
- Forces of Nature: Oxwich Bay: Beach information
- Oxwich
- Pictures of Oxwich Bay and the area on Geograph.co.uk
- Landslide at Oxwich Bay December 2009 British Geological Survey
