Port Eynon, Gower, Swansea - Lifeboat man statute - Dexter postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  The Lifeboatman, Port Eynon, Glamorgan [now Swansea County] on the Gower
• Publisher:  NPO Dexter, Belfast
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Port Eynon (also spelt Port Einon) is a village and community in the city and county of Swansea, Wales. The community has its own elected community council. The village is located in the remote south western corner of the Gower Peninsula which is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Port Eynon Bay is a very popular beach resort beside the village of Port Eynon. Port Eynon Point, to the south west of the bay, is the most southerly point of the Gower Peninsula. The bay is also in the area of outstanding natural beauty.

Both Port Eynon and Horton beaches have suffered from denudation of their sand cover, possibly caused by dredging activities in the Bristol Channel.

The village itself is fairly small and extends from the beach to the top of the hill. Port Eynon village has two fish and chip shops and a gift shop at the sea front, a Youth Hostel, pub, coffee shop and a restaurant.

A neighbouring village, Overton, is to the north west of Port Eynon and footpaths from Overton lead to Overton Mere, a stony and rocky beach. Also, the village of Horton is at the east end of the main beach, approximately half a mile from Port Eynon.

Port Eynon is thought to be named after Prince Einion of Deheubarth^[1] or an 11th-century Welsh Prince named Eynon.^{[citation needed][which?]} Eynon is a surname in Wales and the church graveyard in the village shows gravestones with this surname. It is believed that the Prince built Port Eynon castle which no longer exists.^{[citation needed]}

Smuggling is thought to have been a common engagement of the local residents in the 17th century to 19th century.^{[citation needed]}

A derelict ""salt house"" used for extracting salt from sea water is located a quarter of a mile from the village, just off Port Eynon Point.

In the second half of the 18th century, through to 1919, a lifeboat was operated from Port Eynon. On several occasions, the lives of lifeboatmen were lost at sea on rescues. On the 1st January 1916 the lives of three young men were lost in when the lifeboat went to the assistance of SS Dunvegan which was shipwrecked off Oxwich point. A memorial to these men exists in the village churchyard. Copies of news articles on the Disaster can be seen on the wall of the local fish and chip shop in Port Eynon.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=wales

county/ country=glamorgan

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period=1945 - present

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