At this charming village, beautifully situated overlooking Oxwich bay, there is a curious little church perched high above the sea, and a so called "castle" said to have been built by Sir Rice Mansel in 1541: now it is part of the farm. In his now rare History of West Gower the Reverent J.D.Davies published at the end of the last 19th century, an account of a midnight phantom in Oxwich churchyard. "My elder brother, now deceased, when he was a lad of about fourteen or fifteen, had been out one evening with my father, fishing in the bay; it was late when they landed and by the time they had finished mooring the boat it was nearly twelve o' clock. They had just gained the top of the beach, where the path narrows leading to the Church, when my brother looked behind him, and saw what he described as a white horse walking on its hind legs leisurely heading for the church gate. Having called my father's attention to this strange spectacle, he turned round and they both stood for a minute watching the creature. Until it reached the gate or actually the stone stile by its side; which the animal crossed without the slightest difficulty, still going on is hind legs. Then the uncanny thing disappeared. The only remark my father made was "Come along". They were soon inside the rectory, which was only a few yards away. This strange adventure was rarely spoken of after, I have often been on the point of asking about it but some vague feeling of unease always prevented me. Both eyewitnesses have since passed away, so nothing further can be learnt on the subject." In a letter published in the Swansea Evening Post in May 1963, Mr David Lewis George of Cardiff reproduced this account and added an interesting postscript. After the death of the Reverent Davies, a work entitled The History of the house of Maunsell (Mansell, Maunsel) contained a reference to this strange apparition. Mentioning that the reverent Davies's account of two people simultaneously seeing the curious appearance was apparently written about 1894, and while it is impossible to question the genuiness of the tale, it is equally impossible to account for such an incongruous midnight visitant to Oxwich churchyard, and so there the matter must rest…" Seemingly however the matter did not rest there for, David Lewis George writes, "I recent years a similar white form was seen gliding over the graves in Oxwich churchyard around midnight by an elderly person of unquestionable integrity ", thus making at least three apparently dependable witnesses who claim to have seen the ghostly apparition of Oxwich churchyard.
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