Ogmore-by-Sea, Vale of Glamorgan - Estuary - postcard 1971

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  The estuary, Ogmore-by-Sea, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
• Publisher:  none given (probably Photo Precision) No. PT28379)
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  2&half d. pink Machin
• Postmark(s):  Bridgend 24 June 1971 wavy line cancel
• Sent to:  Nodes Drive, Stevenage, Herts.
• 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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Ogmore-by-Sea (Welsh: Aberogwr, meaning ""Mouth of the River Ogmore"") is a seaside village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It lies on the western limit of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast of south Wales.

polished flint axe-head of Seamer type was found at Ogmore Mill in 1976.^[1]

Just like its counterparts in Cornwall, Ireland and Brittany, the west-facing beach and coast was notorious as a graveyard for ships during strong on-shore winds (i.e. south-westerly winds from the Atlantic). Many ships in particular were destroyed on Tusker Rock, a brutal reef slightly out to sea that is totally covered at high tide. Also prevalent at Ogmore (and all across the Vale of Glamorgan coastline) was organised shipwrecking; similar to tales in Cornwall where lanterns would be tied to a bull/cow at night resting onto top of a cliff; passing ships would mistake a flickering light as a lighthouse and be lured to destruction. This also happened further down the coast at Southerndown

Ogmore-by-Sea is about 3 miles south of Bridgend and about 20 miles west of Cardiff. The beaches look out on Tusker Rock, and have sand at low-tide and sharp rocks at high-tide. The River Ogmore estuary is flanked by Ogmore beach on one side and the dunes of Merthyr Mawr on the other. The estuary makes bathing unsafe from most of the beach. The rocky shoreline is well known as a rock climbing location. It is an interesting place geologically with a variety of fossils clearly visible. Many people use the car-park by the estuary to the River Ogmore, which is just as you enter the village, others move on to Southerndown.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=wales

county/ country=glamorgan

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=posted