Rhossili, St Mary's Church 1901
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The village overlooks the often windswept Rhosili Bay on the western edge of the Gower Peninsula. Tradition has it that the village is named after St Fili, who was possibly a son of St Cenydd. In the 12th-century doorway of the church there is a memorial to Petty Officer Evans, born in the village, who died with Scott in his fateful Antarctic expedition in 1912.

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Through my parents' eyes I am remembering life in Rhossili when they worked and met at the Worms Head Hotel. As a child I was taken many times here and fell in love with this beautifull coastline, and as I became older I would sit on the path's edge and remember the stories my parents told me of their happy times here. My grandfather William Patten was in the Royal Navy and at the end of the First World War he ...see more