Borth, Cardiganshire Headland 1972 Dennis postcard

Postcard

 

• Picture / Image:  The Headland, Borth, Cardiganshire
• Publisher:  Dennis (B.3708)
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  GB 3p ultramarine machin definitive
• Postmark(s):  Aberystwyth 30 July 1972 slogan postmark promoting Aberystwyth
• Sent to:  Woodbury Avenue, Castle Lane, Bournemouth
• Notes & Key words: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Borth (Welsh: Y Borth, (literally English: The Port)) is a coastal village 7 miles north of Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion, Mid Wales. The population was 1523 in 2001.^[1]

Borth has a sandy beach and is a popular holiday seaside resort. There is a youth hostel in the village and caravan and camping sites nearby.

An ancient submerged forest is visible at low tide along the beach, where stumps of oak, pine, birch, willow and hazel (preserved by the acid anaerobic conditions in the peat) can be seen. Radiocarbon dating suggests these trees died about 1500 BC. ^[2] This submerged forest^[3] is also associated with the legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod. ^{[4] [5]}

Cors Fochno, a raised peat mire, part of the only UNESCO Biosphere reserve in Wales is located next to the village together with the Dyfi National Nature Reserve and visitors centre at Ynyslas. The long distance footpath the Dyfi Valley Way passes through the village.

On 4 April 1876 the entire Uppingham School in Rutland, England, consisting of 300 boys, 30 masters and their families, moved to Borth for a period of 14 months, taking over the disused Cambrian Hotel and a large number of boarding houses, to avoid a typhoid epidemic.^[6]

The town's main line railway station is served by the Cambrian Line.

Borth is also the location of the Borth Animalarium and Borth & Ynyslas Golf Club.

According to Morrissey, his hit single "Everyday Is Like Sunday" was inspired by Borth.^[7]

Since 2008, Borth has played host to The Square Festival, finished in 2009.