2007

SH5471 : The Swelly Rock Marker

taken 17 years ago, near to Menai Bridge, Isle of Anglesey/Sir Ynys Mon, Wales

The Swelly Rock Marker
The Swelly Rock Marker
The Swellies - Pwll Ceris in Welsh - is the most treacherous section of the Menai Strait. A medieval document quoted in the fabulously illustrated book 'The Menai Strait' [2003] (also published in Welsh under the title 'Y Fenai'[2002]) by Gwyn Pari Huws and Terry Beggs (Gwasg Gomer Press) states
'In that arm of the sea that departeth between this island Mon and North Wales is a swelowe that draweth to schippes that seileth and sweloweth hem yn, as doth Scylla and Charybdis - therefore we may nouzt seile by this swalowe but slily at the full see'.

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Category: Marker
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SH5471, 279 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Eric Jones   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Wednesday, 4 April, 2007   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 20 May, 2007
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SH 549 713 [100m precision]
WGS84: 53:13.1765N 4:10.4546W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SH 544 716
View Direction
East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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