 Low Tower, Keepers cottages, Fog Horn house and Lighthouse at Nash Point | |
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| Location | St Donats Vale of Glamorgan Wales United Kingdom |
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| Coordinates | 51°24′03″N 3°33′08″W / 51.400863°N 3.552259°W |
| Tower | |
| Constructed | 1832 |
| Built by | James Walker  |
| Construction | stone tower |
| Automated | 1998 |
| Height | 37 metres (121 ft) |
| Shape | tapered cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern |
| Markings | white tower and lantern |
| Operator | Trinity House[1] [2] |
| Heritage | Grade II listed building |
| Light | |
| Focal height | 56 metres (184 ft) |
| Lens | 360mm catadioptric |
| Intensity | 134,000 candela |
| Range | 21 nautical miles (39 km; 24 mi) |
| Characteristic | Fl (2) WR 15s. |
Nash Point (Welsh: Trwyn yr As) is a headland and beach in the Monknash Coast of the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales, about a mile from Marcross.[3] It is a popular location for ramblers and hiking along the cliffs to Llantwit Major beach. The lighthouse meadow is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, containing rare plants such as the tuberous thistle, and other wildlife such as choughs can be seen.
Parts of the section of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast where the lighthouse stands consists of "cliffs of Lias limestone interbedded with softer erodible material" and has been identified as potentially at risk from erosion and flooding.[4] Many fossils, including ammonites and gryphaea are to be found there. Marcross Brook passes through the cliffs and an Iron Age hillfort, usually called Nash Point Camp, stands on the north side of the brook, although its remains have been largely eroded by the sea.[5] Round barrows are also to be found nearby.[6] A study of the rocks shows that they exemplify "a 12,000 year old sequence of tufa, scree and slope deposits containing abundant fossil snails", while the Nash Bank offshore is formed by "Jurassic mudstones overlain by bands of sand and gravel".[7]
- ^ Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Wales". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ Nash Point Lighthouse Trinity House. Retrieved 2 June 2016
- ^ "Weddings at Nash Point". Trinity House. Archived from the original on 3 March 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^ Swansea Bay Shoreline Management Plan. Swansea Bay Coastal Engineering Group. p. 238.
- ^ Griff Fellows (27 June 2014). The Coastal Headlands of Mainland Britain: A practical guide and much more... eBookPartnership.com. pp. 137–. ISBN 978-1-78301-458-3.
- ^ "Weddings at Nash Point". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^ Griff Fellows (27 June 2014). MCA 27 Glamorgan Coastal Waters & Nash Sands. Natural Resources Wales. p. 3.