Borth, Ceredigion - beach - Dennis postcard - local pmk 1970

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  Borth, Cardiganshire [now Ceredigion] - general view of beach
• Publisher: Dennis (B.3702)
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  4d Vermilion Welsh regional 
• Postmark(s): Borth 1970 cds
• Sent to:  Highfield Lane, Quenton, Birmingham 32
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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), is a village and seaside resort in Ceredigion, Mid Wales, 7 miles (11 km) north of Aberystwyth, on the Ceredigion Coast Path. The population was 1,399 in 2011. The village has become anglicised: over 54 per cent of its residents were born in England.[2] The community includes the settlement of Ynyslas.

Borth's sandy beach has helped to promote it as a seaside resort. There is a youth hostel in the village, and caravan and camping sites nearby.

There is an ancient petrified forest 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 the trees date from about 1500 BC.[3] This submerged forest[4] is also associated with the legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod.[5][6] The stumps were exposed for a time by Storm Hannah in 2019.[7]

Cors Fochno, a raised peat mire, part of the Dyfi Biosphere,[8] is the only UNESCO Biosphere reserve in Wales. It is located next to the village, together with the Dyfi National Nature Reserve and visitors' centre at Ynyslas.[citation needed] A 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.[9]

Amenities and functions

Borth railway station is served by the Cambrian Line. The station building houses Borth Station Museum, which displays community and railway historical artifacts and temporary exhibitions.[10] The museum is run by volunteers. Borth is also the location of the Borth Animalarium and the Borth and Ynyslas Golf Club, which was used for many of the scenes in TV series Hinterland.

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

The village war memorial above a cliff south of the beach, was struck by lightning on 21 March 1983 and had to be rebuilt.[11]

In 2008 and 2009 Borth hosted The Square Festival.[citation needed]

In 2011 work commenced on the first phase of a £12-million coastal protection scheme along the Borth to Ynyslas coastline,[12] which was finished in 2015. The work was funded by the Welsh Assembly and the EU.[13] An unexpected consequence of the coastal defence was to reveal the petrified forest mentioned earlier.

In 2018 Borth was subject to a media furore over the escape of a wild lynx from the local zoo.

In 2019 Borth hosted a community street production, "Borth Begins".[14]