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

Beachley was intended to be the site of one of the national shipbuilding yards, projected during the Great War, and considerable work was carried out to that end.

Terminating at Beachley is the far-famed Offa's Dyke, which runs continuously to Flintshire. The space between it and " Wat's Dyke, " which in some parts is three miles and in others not above 500 yards, was free and neutral ground, " where Britons, Danes and Saxons met for commercial purposes. "

A motor launch ferry now connects Aust with Beachley, the crossing being just over a mile. The ferry saves a road distance between Bristol and South Wales of some 55 miles.

The river again widens out here, but in the centre is situated the extensive Oldbury Sand, terminating higher up with the dangerous Norwood Rocks.

Sailing past Cliff Wood and Sedbury Park, running inland, we get abreast of Park Grove, and then, directing our course across the river, we shortly catch sight of the Severn Bridge in the distance. We have now passed on our port side Tidenham. Hanley Hill, and the famous Wyndcliff, before mentioned, lying some three miles inland, and on our starboard side, on the summit of Nibley Knoll, situated about seven or eight miles from the shore. At the village of Nibley here, Tyndale, the translator of the Bible, is supposed to have been born, and this conspicuous pillar was erected to his memory in 1866.