Brandy Cove

Brandy Cove is a very small beach in the Gower Peninsula, south Wales, that is much less accessible than Caswell Bay immediately to the east. It is set at the end of a valley from Bishopston village. It is reachable by footpath from Bishopston or from Caswell Bay over some steep cliffs. The bay gets its name from stories of smugglers using the bay to unload their illegal tobacco and alcohol goods during the eighteenth century.

The sandy stretches of the beach are only exposed at low tide. It is a Pleistocene raised beach where the surrounding geography shows evidence that the sea level was once thirty feet higher than it is today.

The beach has a couple of legends of the supernatural associated with it. One is about a witch who lived in the caves near the beach. The other story is connected to a chilling real life murder that took place near the beach in 1919. Nearby villagers claimed that they could hear screams coming from the caves near the beach at night.

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Coordinates: 51°34′02″N 4°02′31″W / 51.56722°N 4.04194°W / 51.56722; -4.04194

Gower Peninsula

Geographical areas	Bishop's Wood Burry Holms Cefn Bryn Clyne Common Fairwood Common Loughor estuary

Beaches listed clockwise	Bracelet Bay Limeslade Bay Rotherslade Langland Bay Caswell Bay Brandy Cove Pwlldu Bay Hunts Bay Pobbles Bay Three Cliffs Bay Tor Bay Oxwich Bay Slade Bay Horton Beach Port Eynon Beach Mewslade Bay Fall Bay Rhossili Bay (Llangennith Sands) Burry Holms Blue Pool Bay Broughton Bay Whiteford Sands

Headlands	Burry Holms Mumbles Rhossili

Villages in Gower	Bishopston Burry Green Caswell Cheriton Crofty Gowerton Horton Ilston Kittle Knelston Landimore Langland Llanddewi Llangennith Llanmadoc Llanmorlais Llanrhidian Llethryd Middleton Murton Newton Nicholaston Oldwalls Overton Oxwich Oxwich Green Parkmill Penclawdd Pennard Penmaen Penrice Pitton Pitton Green Port Eynon Reynoldston Rhossili Slade Scurlage Southgate Three Crosses Upper Killay

Prehistoric sites	Arthur's Stone Parc Cwm long cairn Paviland Cave

Castles	Loughor Castle Oxwich Castle Oystermouth Castle Pennard Castle Penrice Castle Weobley Castle

Lighthouses	Mumbles Lighthouse Whiteford Lighthouse

Other	Cuisine of Gower Gower Society Gower Ornithological Society Parc le Breos

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