I spend a lot of time walking in the Gower when I am here, it’s a way to recharge my batteries by blowing out the cobwebs. The Gower is littered with the remains of old Castles. Oxwich Castle is up on the ridge above the village and within sight of both Penrice and Pennard castles. More fortified manor houses than front line fortresses I should think, but it shows that living around here had been popular for centuries. Or millenia if you count the iron age fortresses on the headlands and burial mounds on the ridge lines.
There is a more recent potential ‘des res’ out on the end of the point. A relic of WWII well hidden in the folds of the cliffs just below the crest.
No mod cons, You get great sea views, though the windows could be larger and some glass would be a nice refinement.
Accommodation stretches to two separate buildings, the further one houses this concrete sarcophagus, which I think was probably a concrete base for a diesel generator. Might make an interesting bedroom?
I’m not sure, but from the position overlooking the mouth of the Bristol channel, the view directly across towards Devon and Lundy on a good day, the generator building and the remnants of a large mount on the roof, I think it may have been a radar station.
Not realising I was going to write this article I failed to search out an iron age fort to complete the set on my walk, but I feel that there must have been one perched up on these cliffs.
Leave a comment