A Complete and Reliable Guide to Swansea and the Mumbles, Gower, and Other Places of Interest - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...have been inserted both here and at Oxwich At the back of the village is a partly artificial military mound or earthwork attributed to the Danes. From the churchyard the finely timbered Park and the distant sea and headland lie full in view. Oxwich village is most romantically situated on the side of the headland just above the beach, with the waves washing its foundations and the tree-tops nestling about its roof. The church, dedicated to St. Illtyd, is a small building of the plainest character, with an embattled tower and slender stairway turret. The east window is a poor instance of Decorated work. Within the church is an altartomb believed to be commemorative of the builder of the castle. The ruins of Oxwich Castle, a military residence erected by Sir Rice Mansel in i54i, are of considerable extent, consisting principally of a tower, six stories high, pierced with numerous small two-light square-headed windows and single lights with depressed heads. In the upper range a row of large Perpendicular windows indicates the position of the principal apartments. A Tudor gateway surmounted with an escutcheon, quartering Mansel with Scurlage and Penrice, above the letters "RM.," in a segment-headed arch is,perhaps, its most striking feature. A portion of the castle is occupied as a farmhouse. PORTEYNON BAY is the next bay along the coast lying between Oxwich and Porteynon Heads, a distance of from two to three miles, and may be reached from Oxwich either by road; by rounding the Head, passing in so doing a great landslip towards the extremity; or by striking across it up any one of the numerous paths through the woods and across the cultivated land on the top. In Porteynon Bay the chord of the arc is of considerable depth, and is occupied for...

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