Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SARN-BADRIG, or St. Patrick's Causeway

SARN-BADRIG, or St. Patrick's Causeway, anarrow ridge of rock and pebble, extending 21 miles south-westward into the sea, from the shore of Merioneth, at a point 5½ miles S by W of Harlech. It is about 24feet broad; is left dry, for upwards of 9 miles, at ebbtide; is flanked, on the N W side, by steep and dangerousrocks, on the S E side, by regular soundings; affects the compasses of ships coming near it; and belonged anciently to a Cantref-Gwaelod, which was swept away by the sea.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Administrative units: Merionethshire AncC
Place names: SARN BADRIG     |     SARN BADRIG OR ST PATRICKS CAUSEWAY     |     ST PATRICKS CAUSEWAY

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