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Coney Beach Pleasure Park, Eastern Promenade, Porthcawl, Bridgend area, CF36 5BY, Wales Coordinates 51°28′47″N 3°41′48″W / 51.4797°N 3.6967°W / 51.4797; -
Seabank Hotel. Porthcawl is a holiday resort in South Wales and is home to a large static caravan park known as Trecco Bay, which is owned and operated by Parkdean Resorts.It has an extensive promenade and several beaches: a tourist-oriented beach at Trecco Bay, at the east end of the town; a sandy beach at Rest Bay, which lies to the north-west of the town; and the quiet and sandy Pink Bay ...
Rest Bay is a bay and beach near Porthcawl on the coast of Bridgend County Borough, Wales. The long sandy beach is west facing and is popular with surfers, though facilities have been basic. There is a pay and display carpark. A cafe, Malc's, was located nearby. [1]
Around 1890, the family fell into financial difficulties and it became Porthcawl College in 1891 which was run by Reverend E.J. Newell of Oxford University until 1906. In 1907 creditors of the Brogden family, the owners of the building, called in their loans and it was bought by John Elias and others for conversion into a hotel.
The only access to Barry Island before 1896 had been either by foot across the sands and mud at low tide or by Yellow Funnel Line paddle steamer when the tide was in. As a further incentive for visitors to come to Barry, an extension to the railway line, through a boxed in tunnel on a 250 yards (230 m) long pier structure, was built from the mainland to a new station next to the main Barry ...
Porthcawl Lifeboat Station is located at The Esplanade, in the town of Porthcawl, on the South Wales coast, in Bridgend, Wales. A lifeboat station was established here in 1860 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), but was closed in 1902, when Porthcawl Dock closed.
Royal Porthcawl Golf Club is a golf club in Wales in the United Kingdom, located north of Porthcawl and bordering the Bristol Channel.. The club has hosted many prestigious tournaments including The Amateur Championship on six occasions, the Walker Cup in 1995, the Curtis Cup in 1964, the British Masters in 1961, and European Tour event, the Welsh Golf Classic in the early 1980s.
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