Pennard or Pennarth, Glamorgan

Description
Pennard or Pennarth, a parish in Glamorgan, on the E side of Oxwich Bay, 4 miles SW of Killay station on The L. & N.W.R., and 8 SW of Swansea. It contains part of the village of Park Mill, which has a post and money order office under Swansea; telegraph office, Reynoldstone. Acreage, 2855, with 159 of foreshore; population, 240. Pennard Castle belongs to the Edwardian times, but is now reduced to little more than a bold gateway, with rude flanking towers. The coast has been much disintegrated by the sea, and now has extensive sands where formerly there was good land. There is a coastguard station. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's; gross value, £59.