Oxwich Bay
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Oxwich Bay is a bay on the south of the Gower Peninsula, Wales.
Its landscape features sand dunes, salt marshes and woodland. Oxwich Bay includes a 2.5 mile-long sandy beach, accessible from the village of Oxwich. It is also a popular spot for swimming and watersports including diving, sailing, water skiing and windsurfing. There is a public footpath along the cliffs from Oxwich Bay, round Oxwich Point, and to Port Eynon Bay. Buses run every couple of hours between Oxwich and Port Eynon.
A variety of submarine cables leave the mainland of Britain from Oxwich. These include the SOLAS cable across the Irish Sea, and the TAT-11 and Gemini North transatlantic telephone cables. These latter two do not terminate here but instead continue on to France (TAT-11) and England (Gemini).
On 1 February 2007, The Travel Magazine [1] named Oxwich beach the most beautiful in Britain.[2]
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Geographical areas: Cefn Bryn • Fairwood Common • Loughor estuary
Beaches listed clockwise: Swansea Bay • Mumbles Beach • Bracelet Bay • Limeslade Bay • Rotherslade • Langland Bay • Caswell Bay • Brandy Cove • Pwlldu Bay • Hunts Bay • Pobbles Bay • Three Cliffs Bay • Tor Bay • Oxwich Bay • Slade Bay • Horton • Port Eynon Bay • Mewslade Bay • Fall Bay • Rhossili Bay • Llangennith Sands • Burry Holms • Blue Pool Bay • Broughton Bay • Whiteford Sands
