Welsh Journals

Mumbles Headlands Terence Soames The Drowned Lands of Swansea Bay by BERNARD MORRIS Swansea BAY is THE SUBJECT of several legends of once fertile lands overwhelmed by the sea. Although there is no reliable evidence that disastrous and permanent flooding has taken place here in historic times, there is sound geological evidence that large tracts of land have in fact disappeared beneath the sea within the last five thousand years. The most persistent and detailed of the legends of Swansea Bay is that which tells of the Angel family of Mumbles and their lost lands at the Green Grounds, which now remain as sandbanks beneath the bay. This story is often quoted in old guide books and histories of the district, and a guide book of 1909 relates the story as follows In 1606 there are records of great destruction when the