The location is that marked on the OS First Series map as "Shipping Moors". The area was described by the 1881 census as "land common to St Andrew and Cadoxton juxta Barry", putting it into this general vicinity. An article in the Transactions of the Glamorgan Local History Society speaks of a scheme "to drain the Cadoxton Sheeping Moors which had been common land, to convert it into meadow and to erect a flour mill" (vol. 24 (1980), pp. 44-5; on-line via Welsh Journals On-line, http://cylchgronaucymru.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1169834/llgc-id:1172366/llgc-id:1172412/getText, accessed 22/1/2011), so the area was marshland.
Sheeping Moors through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sheeping Moors in The Vale of Glamorgan | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
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Date accessed: 01st October 2024
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