Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NASH POINT

NASH POINT, a small headland on the coast of Glamorgan; 9½ miles W by N of Roos point, and 21 S Eby E of Mumbles Head. It projects at a bend of the coast 6½ miles S W of Cowbridge; consists of high lime-stone rocks, mural, broken, picturesque, and commonlycalled Nash Cliffs; was the scene, in 1832, of the wreck of the steamer " Frolic, " when all persons on board, amounting to nearly 60, were lost; and is crowned by two lighthouses, erected immediately after that disaster, 167 and 123 feet high, 1,000 feet apart, and showing fixed lights visible at the distance of 18 and 16 miles. A dangerous shifting bank, called the Nash Sands, liesto the W N W of the headland; is 6 miles long, and partly dry at low water; and has a beacon. A passage, about¼ of a mile wide, is between the Sands and the shore; has a depth of three fathoms; and can be navigated in fine weather. The name Nash, as applied to the headland, appears to have been derived from the Latin"nasus, " signifying "a nose; " and it ought to bewritten, and occasionally is written, Nass.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a small headland"   (ADL Feature Type: "capes")
Administrative units: Glamorgan AncC

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