Nash Point

{{About|the Welsh headland|the game theory term|Nash equilibrium}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox lighthouse

| qid = Q15717627

| image = Nashlighthouse-wyrdlight-7414.jpg

| caption = Low Tower, Keepers cottages, Fog Horn house and Lighthouse at Nash Point

| location = St Donats
Vale of Glamorgan
Wales
United Kingdom

| coordinates = {{coord|51.400863|-3.552259}}

| yearbuilt = 1832

| yearlit =

| automated = 1998

| construction = stone tower

| shape = tapered cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern

| marking = white tower and lantern

| height = {{convert|37|m|ft}}

| focalheight = {{convert|56|m|ft}}

| lens = 360mm catadioptric

| intensity = 134,000 candela

| range = {{convert|21|nmi}}

| characteristic = Fl (2) WR 15s.

| managingagent = Trinity House{{Cite rowlett|cym|accessdate=2016-06-02}}

[https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouses-and-lightvessels/nash-point-lighthouse Nash Point Lighthouse] Trinity House. Retrieved 2 June 2016

}}

Nash Point ({{langx|cy|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.{{cite web|url=https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/weddings-at-nash-point-lighthouse|title=Weddings at Nash Point|website=Trinity House|access-date=1 May 2016|archive-date=3 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180303105625/https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/weddings-at-nash-point-lighthouse|url-status=dead}} It is a popular location for ramblers and hiking along the cliffs to Llantwit Major beach. The lighthouse meadow is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, containing rare plants such as the tuberous thistle, and other wildlife such as choughs can be seen.

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Parts of the section of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast where the lighthouse stands consists of "cliffs of Lias limestone interbedded with softer erodible material" and has been identified as potentially at risk from erosion and flooding.{{cite book|title=Swansea Bay Shoreline Management Plan|publisher=Swansea Bay Coastal Engineering Group|page=238}} Many fossils, including ammonites and gryphaea are to be found there. Marcross Brook passes through the cliffs and an Iron Age hillfort, usually called Nash Point Camp, stands on the north side of the brook, although its remains have been largely eroded by the sea.{{cite book|author=Griff Fellows|title=The Coastal Headlands of Mainland Britain: A practical guide and much more....|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EtrsAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT137|date=27 June 2014|publisher=eBookPartnership.com|isbn=978-1-78301-458-3|pages=137–}} Round barrows are also to be found nearby.{{cite web|url=http://map.coflein.gov.uk/index.php|title=Weddings at Nash Point|website=Coflein|publisher=RCAHMW|access-date=1 May 2016}} A study of the rocks shows that they exemplify "a 12,000 year old sequence of

tufa, scree and slope deposits containing abundant fossil snails", while the Nash Bank offshore is formed by "Jurassic mudstones overlain by bands of sand and

gravel".{{cite book|author=Griff Fellows|title=MCA 27 Glamorgan Coastal Waters & Nash Sands|date=27 June 2014|publisher=Natural Resources Wales|page=3}}