Borth, Ceredigion - from Headland - Harvey Barton postcard 1964 pmk

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  Borth from the Headland [Ceredigion] 
• Publisher: Harvey Barton 
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  Geographical Congress commem (damaged)
• Postmark(s): Borth (?) 1964 cds
• Sent to:  Birmingham
• Notes / condition: 

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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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Borth (Welsh: Y Borth, (literally English: The Port)) is a coastal village 7 miles north of Aberystwyth in the county of Ceredigion, Mid Wales. It lies on the Ceredigion Coast Path. The population was 1,523 in 2001.^[2]

Borth has a sandy beach and is a 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.^[3] This submerged forest^[4] is also associated with the legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod. ^[5] [6]

Cors Fochno, a raised peat mire, part of the Dyfi Biosphere,^[7] 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[8]

The town's main line railway station is served by the Cambrian Line. The station building houses a museum displaying community and railway historical artifacts and temporary exhibitions run by volunteers. Visit [1] for opening hours.

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

The Borth inshore lifeboat (ILB) station was established in 1966 and is located at the southern end of the beach.

The village's war memorial, situated above a cliff south of the beach, was destroyed by lightning on 21 March 1983 and had to be rebuilt.^[9]

In 2008 and 2009 Borth hosted the Square Festival.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011 works commenced on the first phase of the £12 million coastal protection scheme along the Borth to Ynyslas coastline,^[10] and finished in 2015.