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

In the Aberthaw district Breaksea (generally pronounced " Bricksea ") Point juts out to sea in a dangerous-looking way, and off the shore is anchored the Breaksea Lightship, with its evening star ever ready to warn the mariner of the dangers of the coast. The flashing white light is visible at a distance of eleven miles.

Six miles beyond Breaksea a portion of the village of Llantwit can be seen and a little beyond is St. Donat's Castle, with its well-known headland of Nash two miles farther on. I

t is very dangerous owing to the long tongue of sand extending eleven miles in a down-channel direction from it. The two lighthouses, one of which is now obsolete and the light discontinued, are for the purpose of indicating the presence and direction of this shoal to those passing up or down.

A heavily laden vessel with a large draught of water going in our direction, say to Swansea, would keep outside of the Nash Sands, and, a little lower, the Scarweather Sands with a Lightship off the western edge of the shoal ; but we can take the narrow passage just off the point, and save twenty miles or so.

The castle that stands out to view three miles beyond Nash is Dunraven Castle, and the high, breezy-looking ridge, with the sprinkling of houses upon it beyond Dunraven Castle, is Southerndown, a quiet  watering-place.

Porthcawl, with the Tusker Rock lying near it, four miles farther on, is a livelier and larger watering-place. It is a bracing spot and the bathing beaches are extensive and perfectly safe.