Watch House Beach
Watch House Beach is a beach in Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Watch House Beach is situated nearby to the motorhome stopover Fontygary Leisure Park, as well as near the hamlet Fonmon.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Blue Anchor Inn and Aberthaw power stations.
The Blue Anchor Inn
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Photo: Christopher Ware, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Blue Anchor Inn is a Grade II* listed inn in Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. The Blue Anchor Inn is situated 3,500 feet northwest of Watch House Beach.
Aberthaw power stations
Photo: Christopher Ware, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Two decommissioned coal-fired and co-fired biomass power stations, both known as Aberthaw power station, have operated at Limpert Bay, near the villages of Gileston and West Aberthaw in the Vale of Glamorgan. Aberthaw power stations is situated 1 mile west of Watch House Beach.
Aberthaw Cement Works
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Aberthaw Cement Works are cement works in the Vale of Glamorgan near the village of East Aberthaw in Wales. Aberthaw Cement Works is situated 1 mile northwest of Watch House Beach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Font-y-gary and Fonmon.
Font-y-gary
Suburb
Photo: Vincent Babb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Font-y-Gary, also Fontygary, Fontegary or Fontygari, is a village adjacent to Rhoose, 3 miles south-west of Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan, on the coast of South Wales.
Fonmon
Hamlet
Photo: Daicaregos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fonmon is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. It lies just off the B4265 road to the northwest of Font-y-Gary and Rhoose on the western side of Cardiff Airport.
Gileston
Village
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gileston is a small Welsh village near West Aberthaw in the Vale of Glamorgan on the coast of South Wales. Gileston is situated 1½ miles northwest of Watch House Beach.
Watch House Beach
- Type: Beach
- Category: landform
- Location: Rhoose, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.38262° or 51° 22′ 57″ northLongitude
-3.38096° or 3° 22′ 51″ westOpen location code
9C3R9JM9+2JOpenStreetMap ID
way 165032240OpenStreetMap feature
natural=beach
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