Nicholaston, Glamorgan

Description
Nicholaston, a parish in Glamorgan, on Oxwich Bay, in the Gower Peninsula, 2 miles ENE of Penrice, and 11 WSW of Swansea. It contains the hamlet of Manselfield, and its post town is Swansea. Acreage, 486 of land, 2 of water, 2 of tidal water, and 64 of foreshore; population, 100. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Oxwich, in the diocese of St David's. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1894.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5