Oxwich Bay
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Oxwich Bay is a bay on the south of the Gower peninsula, South Wales.
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 also 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. Buses run every couple of hours between Oxwich and Port Eynon.
A variety of 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 England (Gemini).
On 1 February 2007, The Travel Magazine [1] named Oxwich beach the most beautiful in Britain.[2]
[edit] External links
- grid reference SS513874
- Forces of Nature: Oxwich Bay: Beach information
- Oxwich
- www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Oxwich Bay and surrounding area
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