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Encyclopedia Britannica



PORTHCAWL

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 117 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PORTHCAWL , a seaport and urban
district
  in the mid-parliamentary division of Glamorganshire,
South
  Wales, 30 M. by rail W. of Cardiff and 22 M. S.E. of Swansea. Pop. (1901) 1872. The urban
district
  (formed in 1893) is conterminous with the civil parish of Newton Nottage, which, in addition to Porthcawl proper, built on the sea-front, comprises the ancient
village
  of Nottage, r m. N., and the more modern
village
  of New-ton, 1 m. N.E. of Porthcawl. The natural harbour of Newton (as it used to be called) was improved by a breakwater, and was connected by a tramway with Maesteg, whence coal and iron were brought for shipment. The tramway was converted into a railway, and in 1865 opened for passenger
traffic
 . In 1866 a dock (71 acres) and tidal basin (21 acres) were constructed, butsince about 1902 they have fallen into disuse and the coal is diverged to other ports, chiefly Port Talbot. Porthcawl, however, has grown in popularity as a watering-place. Situated on a slightly elevated headland facing Swansea Bay and the Bristol Channel, it has fine sands, rocks and breezy commons, on one of which, near golf links resorted to from all parts of Glamorgan, is " The Rest," a convalescent
home
  for the working classes, completed in 1891, with
accommodation
  for eighty persons. The climate of Porthcawl is bracing, and the rainfall (averaging 25 in.) is about the lowest on the
South
  Wales
coast
 . The district is described by R. D.
Blackmore
  in his tale The Maid of Sker (1872), based on a legend associated with Sker
House
 , a fine Elizabethan building in the adjoining parish of Sker, which was formerly extra-parochial. The parish church (dedicated to St John the Baptist) has a pre-Reformation stone altar and an ancient carved stone pulpit, said to be the only relic of an earlier church now covered by the sea.


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