Caswell Bay

Caswell Bay (Welsh: Bae Cas-wellt; meaning: straw fortress), is a beach on the south east of the Gower Peninsula, Swansea, Wales.

It is a sandy beach popular with families, holiday makers and surfers, and it regularly achieves Blue Flag status.

There is good access to Caswell Bay by car and public transport by First Cymru from Swansea Bus Station.

The Surfside Cafe suffered severe storm damage in January and February 2014, but reopened in the spring following repair and refurbishment.

[1] Swansea City Council operate a Lifeguard service 7 days a week from early May to the beginning of September.

[5] Between 1829 and 1840 much of the land around Caswell Bay was bought by John James, a former Curate of Bishopston, for his daughter and his son-in-law, Charles Morgan.

In the late 1920s Redcliffe was the family home of poet Vernon Watkins, a contemporary and close friend of Dylan Thomas.

[6] In 1879, the religious poet and hymn writer Frances Ridley Havergal died of peritonitis in a house near Caswell Bay.

Less than 2 years after settling in a house overlooking Caswell Bay, George Shotton and his wife Mamie Stuart mysteriously disappeared before Christmas 1919.

The centre was built by a team of volunteers as part of a special episode of the television programme DIY SOS for BBC Children in Need.