Mumbles Pier - Wales.
N 51° 34.138 W 003° 58.613
30U E 432295 N 5713551
The Mumbles Pier is an 835 feet (255 m) long Victorian pier built in 1898. The pier is used only for fishing and tourism, offering panoramic views of Swansea Bay and the Mumbles Lighthouse
Waymark Code: WMDH7J
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/16/2012
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"In recent years the pier has fallen into a state of disrepair with a large section fenced off to visitors and other areas patched up to maintain safety. The owners plan to repair the pier along with the regeneration of the nearby area. The plans include the building of a new hotel and spa, a conference and exhibition centre and a new boardwalk linking the Knab rock with the pier.
Designed by W. Sutcliffe Marsh and promoted by John Jones Jenkins of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway, the pier opened on 10 May 1898 at a cost of £10,000. It was the western terminus for the world's first passenger carrying railway, the Swansea and Mumbles Railway; and a major terminal for the White Funnel paddle steamers of P and A Campbell, unloading tourists from routes along the River Severn and Bristol Channel"
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"Mumbles or The Mumbles (Welsh: Y Mwmbwls) is an area and community in Swansea, Wales which takes its name from the adjacent headland stretching into Swansea Bay. The headland is thought by some to have been named by french sailors, after the shape of the two anthropomorphic islands which comprise the headland. See numerous other similar anthropomorphic geographic features worldwide. Another possible source of the name is from the word Mamucium which is thought to derive from the Celtic language meaning breast-shaped hill"
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