Rhoose Point sign
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Rhoose Point (Welsh: Trwyn y Rhws) is a headland and a settlement near the village of Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Rhoose Point is the most southerly settlement of Wales. It may also be the southernmost point of mainland Wales, although this has also been claimed for nearby Breaksea Point.[notes 1] The Vale of Glamorgan Council had installed a permanent notice marking Rhoose Point as the most southerly part of Wales's mainland and there is a small stone circle marking the point.

Rhoose cement works, an asbestos factory and a quarry used to be located to the north or Rhoose Point. This land has been reclaimed and is the site of the Rhoose Point Housing scheme, where over 1,000 houses have greatly extended the village of Rhoose.

To the east, the island of Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel, currently under the administration of Cardiff, lies almost on the same latitude as Rhoose and Breaksea Points.

Notes

  1. ↑ Looking in detail at other sources of information in January 2021, revealed that there is very little difference in the northings above the latitude of 51° — in fact a fraction of minutes of arc. In the light that Breaksea Point has had a heavy sea wall from 1958 (with the construction of Aberthaw "A" power station), its geographical location became fixed whereas Rhoose point is continually 'creeping' inland slightly, due to cliff face erosion. Both points lie on the south coast of the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales and project into the Bristol Channel and are 4.42km apart.

References

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    51°22′51″N 3°20′31″W / 51.38085°N 3.34202°W / 51.38085; -3.34202


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