Landing Stage, Caswell Bay

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A 'Landing Stage' some 18m in length is shown on OS 1st edition mapping with a small boathouse some 30 m to the southwest. Nothing is now visible on modern aerial photography, but the landing stage has been replaced by an access slip to the north. Admiralty Sailing Directions dating to 1884 note that there is landing for boats within the bay. A spring and well for mariners to replentish freshwater supplies are shown on OS 1st edtion mapping in the northwestern corner of the bay .

Sources include:
Admiralty; 1884, Sailing Directions for the Bristol Channel, 4th Ed, pg100
OS 1st edition 25in mapping

Maritime Officer, RCAHMW, September 2014.