Port Eynon or Porth Einion, Glamorgan

Description
Port Eynon or Porth Einion, a village and a parish in Glamorgan. The village stands on a bay of its own name, half a mile N of Port Eynon Point at the SE extremity of the Slower Peninsula, 12 miles SW of Killay station on the L. & N.W.R., and 15 WSW of Swansea, and was once noted for smuggling and oyster dredging. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Swansea, The parish contains also the village of Overton, and comprises 1139 acres of land and 214 of foreshore; population, 202. Port Eynon Bay is an encurvature of about 2 1/2 miles, and lies exposed to the SE. The living is a rectory in the diocese of St David's; net value, £130 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient, and has a Norman doorway; it was restored in 1861. There is a Wesleyan chapel.