Gower e-News: Issue 12 - Magnificent May!

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walkingthegower.co.uk Hunts Bay/Pennard Cliffs

As we have already read in Frances Bevan’s ‘Shipwrecks and Smuggling’ article, the Gower coast has seen its fair share of shipping disasters. Notably in 1760, 65 people are said to have drowned as a result of the Caesar, on which they were travelling, running aground on an area off Pwlldu Head. The area marked by a rough circle of stones and marked ‘Graves End’ on the Ordnance Survey 164 map is the mass grave of those who perished on 5th November 1760. 49

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