Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The Bristol Channel District Guide - selected articles - [1934 Edition] . . . .

And now,turning our attention to starboard, we see, about two miles off, the little island known as the Denny, beyond which the Monmouthshire coast looms up, and, looking to the W.N.W., we may distinguish on a clear day the Machen mountain and Twyn Barllwm away inland (beyond Newport), the latter rising to an approximate height of 1,561 feet above sea level.

Passing the Nore Lighthouse and the National Nautical School, which replaced the " Formidable " training ship, formerly anchored off the shore, we note the white Signalling Station for ships entering the Port of Bristol.

At Walton Bay, the ruins of Walton Castle, standing on a grassy hill, come into view. The history of the Castle is not known, but it is said to have originally belonged to the Earls Poulett, and to have been erected in the 17th century as a hunting castle.