Nash Point (Welsh: Trwyn yr As) is a headland and beach in the Monknash Coast of the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales, about a mile from Marcross. [3] It is a popular location for ramblers and hiking along the cliffs to Llantwit Major beach.

With a large bedrock beach full of fossils and fertile rock pools, stunning rugged cliffs and rock formations, and all topped off with the majestic Nash Point Lighthouse.

For 175 years Nash Point lighthouse, designed by James Walker, the Engineer-in-Chief to Trinity House, has been keeping the mariner safe of Nash Sands, the sandbanks off the point at the entrance to the Bristol Channel.

Nash Point Lighthouse was one of two lighthouses built by Trinity House in 1832 to successfully assist mariners clear of the Nash Sands

Nash Point, in the heart of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, is a spectacular location to visit. With a large bedrock beach full of fossils and fertile rock pools, stunning rugged cliffs and...

Highlights include Nash Point Lighthouse, St Donat’s Castle and breathtaking views of the spectacular cliffs on the Glamorgan Heritage Coast. On the inland sections, you’ll cross rural farmland and ancient woodlands, and discover historic buildings.

The area around the Nash Point lighthouse takes in a section of rugged coastline looking out over the Bristol Channel. Erected in 1832 to protect ships from the Nash Sands, the station originally had two lights from the current ‘high’ tower (east) and the ‘low’ tower (west).

Llanwit Major to Nash Point, Vale of Glamorgan. The perfect place to dinosaur fossil hunting as well as an invigorating clifftop walk with expansive views of the Bristol channel

Nash Point is a headland and beach in the Monknash Coast of the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales, about a mile from Marcross. It is a popular location for ramblers and hiking along the cliffs to Llantwit Major beach.

Nash Point is great place for spotting an exciting variety of wildlife species, from the endangered Tuberous Thistles, wild carrot and cabbage, to graceful fulmers flying overhead and playful porpoises in the turbulent water by the sand bank.