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FIG 140. Golden-ringed dragonfly, one of 17 species recorded from the area of Decoy Wood. (Harold Grenfell)
LLANGENNITH MOORS
Atfirstglancethelarge-scaleOrdnanceSurveymapofGowerlooksasthoughthecolourprintingisinac-
curate to the west of Llangennith village. Instead of the normal black lines for field boundaries they have
been printed in blue. There is no mistake, however, for here water-filled ditches and not hedges, banks or
walls act as field boundaries. Llangennith Moors, covering some 50 hectares, is one of only three graz-
ing marsh systems still in existence in this part of South Wales (Fig. 141), the other two being Cwm Ivy
Marsh and Margam Moors to the east of Swansea. Margam Moors is all that remains of the extensive
coastal grazing marsh that once stretched from the River Kenfig to the River Neath, the remainder having
been destroyed by industrial development.
Llangennith Moors was included in the strip field system and although by 1844, when the tithe com-
missioners surveyed the parish of Llangennith, they had been enclosed, the meadows and withy bed on
its eastern side were described as 'in landshares' and were partly unfenced. The Moors owe their origin
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