Penrice, Glamorgan

Description
Penrice, a village and a parish in Glamorgan. The village stands near the W side of Oxwich Bay, in the Gower Peninsula, 9 miles W of Killay station on the L. & N.W.R., and 13 W of Swansea. It was once a market-town. Post town, Swansea; money order and telegraph office, Reynoldstone. The parish contains also the village of Horton, and comprises 2124 acres; population of the civil parish, 242; of the ecclesiastical, 270. The name Penrice was originally written Pen-rhys, applies properly to a headland of the parish, and was taken from Rhys-ab-Caradoc, who was killed here. Penrice Castle was built by the Earl of Warwick, to secure his acquisitions in Gower; passed to the Penrices, the Man-sells, and the Talbots; and is now a ruin, consisting chiefly of some large inwardly-rounded towers. A modern mansion, the seat of the Talbot family, stands adjacent to the ruins, embowered in wood, and was built in 1782 out of materials from Margam Abbey. Sanctuary Farm is the site of a nunnery founded in the reign of Henry III. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St David's; net value, £80. The church is ancient and cruciform, has been restored, and is remarkable for the beauty of its situation. There is a "Wesleyan chapel at Horton.