Oxwich Bay on the Gower peninsula of South Wales

Oxwich Bay is a bay on the south of the Gower peninsula, 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 named Oxwich beach the most beautiful in Britain.^[1]

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[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

Coordinates: 51°33′57″N 4°08′48″W / 51.56581°N 4.14679°W / 51.56581; -4.14679