Someone wrote a travel guide to 'fashionable' Swansea 200 years ago and made a shocking statement

An extensive 1823 travel guide shows Georgian Swansea as a fashionable seaside resort with bathing houses, elegant inns, and trips to Mumbles and Gower, but made a surprising claim about a south Wales gem


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