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Rhossili's Buried Church

Rhossili, Gower

An old church and village buried by sand below the downs.

Below the cliffs at Rhossili, an earlier village and church were buried by drifting sand around the 1200s. Their remains were glimpsed after a storm in 1980.

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When
Abandoned 1200s
Where
51.5700, -4.2900
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Rhossili is a National Trust village with one of Britain's finest beaches.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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