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

Off Port Eynon Head are the East and West Helwick Sands, a little over three miles each in length. There is a lightship off their westerly extremity known as the Helwick Lightship.

We are now off the coast of the Gower peninsula, a district which, having been colonized by the Flemmings in the twelfth century, still caries evidence of the fact in its peculiar dialect, customs, style of houses and placid Dutch manners of the people.

It is a wild and solitary land, almost surrounded by sea, says the Cambridge County Geography of Glamorgan. In measurement it is 18 miles long and 8 miles broard, and is chiefly remarkable for its bold and diversified coast scenery.