East Orchard Castle.

 Visit Date 05-2022.St. Athen in South Wales in recent times has been known for the RAF base here where the RAF’s non-aircraft, ground engineering technicians were and still are trained.The Station officially opened as RAF St. Athan on 1 September 1938.More recently, St. Athen has become base for the manufacture of the high-class Aston Martin SUV. Conversion of the three super hangars have been...

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WW2 Pillbox on Kenfig Sands

 Visit Date 05-2022: . About 28,000 pillboxes and other hardened field fortifications were constructed in Britain in 1940 as part of the British anti-invasion preparations for World War II. About 6,500 of these structures still survive. Along the beach at Kenfig sands is the remains of one of these abandoned structures.A pillbox is a type of brick, block, or concrete dug-in guard-post, normally...

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East Usk Lighthouse (and West)

 Visit Date- 04-2022:. The East Usk Lighthouse was constructed in 1893 by Trinity House. it stands guard at the eastern entrance to the River Usk in the Severn Estuary at Newport in South Wales.Historically, the tidal reaches of the Usk have been used as a major shipping port for much of the last millennium, mostly because of its wide and deep mouth, and good navigable access from the Severn...

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Loughor Castle.

 Visit Date May 2022..Loughor Castle is situated in a strategic location on the north of the Gower coast and the site has a long history.Its history starts in around 75 AD when the Romans built a fort on the site then known as Leucarum, which took its name from the Celtic name for the River Loughor (in Welsh, Llwchwr; Leucara, in Latin).It was used as a military fort intermittently until the...

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