Font-y-Gary
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| Police | South Wales |
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Font-y-Gary, also Fontygary, Fontegary or Fontygari (Template:Langx), is a village adjacent to Rhoose, 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, on the coast of South Wales. To the north is Fonmon and Fonmon Castle. The origin of the name is uncertain, but in 1587 it was documented as "Fundygary".[1]
Font-y-Gary is located near Cardiff International Airport. There is little in the village itself apart from the Font-y-Gary Holiday and Leisure Park and caravan site and stoney beach.[2] On Sundays there is a car boot sale on the holiday park site, as well as the club and shop. There is also a disused quarry in the vicinity between Font-y-Gary and Aberthaw.
In 1928 Font-y-Gary was noted for being a favorable picnic spot,[3] and in 1943 Font-y-Gary was described as a "pleasant summer resort with a delightful beach for bathing, edged with rugged cliffs which form a delightful background – and a convenient undressing place for bathers."[4] The shingle beach and cliffs are distinctive and there is a large cave called Font-y-Gary Cave.[5] The scene is of the view from the top of the cliffs in the photos below.[<span title="Script error: No such module "decodeEncode".">clarification needed] Actress Susan George frequently holidayed at the caravan park as a child.[6]
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Font-y-Gary Holiday Home Park.
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The coast at the Font-Y-Gary Beach looking east/southeast nearing high-tide.
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Font-Y-Gary beach looking west.
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Railway Bridge at Font-y-Gary
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mills, Anthony David (6 November 2003). A Dictionary of British Place-Names. Oxford University Press. p. 530. ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Fontygary Holiday and Leisure Park". Vale of Glamorgan Council. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gas world. Benn Bros. January 1928. p. 575.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Evans, Cyril James Oswald (1943). Glamorgan: its history and topography. W. Lewis (printers) ltd.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Geological Survey of Great Britain (1904). The geology of the South Wales coal-field ... Printed for H.M. Stationery off., by Wyman and sons, limited. p. 105.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Country life. Country Life, Ltd. 2008. p. 58.
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