Oxwich Bay on the Gower peninsula of South Wales

Oxwich Bay is a bay on the south of the Gower peninsula, South Wales. Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment South Wales (De Cymru is an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south and Mid Wales and West Wales

Its landscape features sand dunes, salt marshes and woodland. In physical Geography, a dune is a Hill of Sand built by Aeolian processes. In Geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of Wetland which is subject Ecologically a woodland is an area covered in trees differentiated from a Forest. Oxwich Bay includes a 2. 5 mile long sandy beach, accessible from the village of Oxwich. Oxwich ( is a Village in the principal area of Swansea, Wales. It is also a popular spot for swimming and watersports including diving, sailing, water skiing and windsurfing. Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through Water, usually without artificial assistance Diving off a deck into the Great South Bay of Long Islandjpg|thumb|A man dives into the Great South Bay of Long Island. Sailing is the art of controlling a Sailing vessel. By changing the Rigging, Rudder and dagger or centre board a Sailor manages the force Water skiing is a Sport where an individual (or more than one individual is pulled behind a Motor boat or a cable ski installation on a body of water wearing Windsurfing is a surface water sport using a windsurf board also commonly called a sailboard usually two to five meters long and powered by a single sail There is a public footpath along the cliffs from Oxwich Bay, around Oxwich Point, and to Port Eynon Bay. Port Eynon is a Village and community in the city and county of Swansea, Wales. Buses run every couple of hours between Oxwich and Port Eynon.

A variety of submarine cables leave the mainland of Britain from Oxwich. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located These include the SOLAS cable across the Irish Sea, and the TAT-11 and Gemini North transatlantic telephone cables. The Irish Sea ( Irish: Muir Éireann or Muir Meann; Scottish Gaelic: Muir Eireann Welsh: Môr Iwerddon, TAT-11 was AT&T 's 11th Transatlantic telephone cable, in operation from 1993, initially carrying 2 x 565 Mbit/s between USA and France A transatlantic telephone cable is a Submarine communications cable that carries telephone traffic under the Atlantic Ocean. These latter two do not terminate here but instead continue on to France (TAT-11) and England (Gemini). This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

On 1 February 2007, The Travel Magazine [1] named Oxwich beach the most beautiful in Britain. [2]

External links

• grid reference SS513874
• Forces of Nature: Oxwich Bay: Beach information
• Oxwich
• www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Oxwich Bay and surrounding area