Park at Caswell Bay car park - free between October and March - just off the B4593. The Nature Reserve has been wooded since at least the 17th Century.
The Roundhouse was built in 2003 by Davydd Davies-Hughes. It was inspired by a study of a medieval cathedral spire.
Holtsfield, adjoining Bishop's Wood, is a community of 27 small, single-storey chalets built during the interwar years.
On the other side of Caswell Bay Road lies Brandy Cove. The name derives from the days when alcohol and tobacco were brought ashore illicitly during the 19th. Century. Small boats loaded ore here from the lead mines that were worked nearby. Legend has it that a witch called 'Old Moll' once haunted Brandy Cove.
A more chilling tale and one based on fact involves a young woman called Mamie Stuart who lived in Caswell Bay Road and went missing in the winter of 1919. In November, 1961, 3 pot-holers discovered a human skeleton which had been sawn into 3 pieces. Mamie's bigamist husband was the likely suspect but he had died 3 years before the discovery. Her remains are buried in Bishopston churchyard. Is this the shaft where the bones were discovered?
All Slade Mine also known as Bishopston Mine was a small lead mine first recorded working in the latter part of the 18th. Century. It reopened as the Bishopston Silver-Lead Mine from 1850 - 1853. The pump was never able to adequately cope with the influx of water. The only recorded output was 10 tons of lead ore in 1853.
A more chilling tale and one based on fact involves a young woman called Mamie Stuart who lived in Caswell Bay Road and went missing in the winter of 1919. In November, 1961, 3 pot-holers discovered a human skeleton which had been sawn into 3 pieces. Mamie's bigamist husband was the likely suspect but he had died 3 years before the discovery. Her remains are buried in Bishopston churchyard. Is this the shaft where the bones were discovered?
All Slade Mine also known as Bishopston Mine was a small lead mine first recorded working in the latter part of the 18th. Century. It reopened as the Bishopston Silver-Lead Mine from 1850 - 1853. The pump was never able to adequately cope with the influx of water. The only recorded output was 10 tons of lead ore in 1853.
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Paulo
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The opening you show is not the one to the cave where Mamie's remians were found. She is not buried in Bishopston churchyard - she has in fact never been buried.
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