The Gower Peninsular lies to the west of Swansea, jutting out into the Bristol Channel.

As Britain’s very first ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’, its southern coastline is a well-known tourist area, renowned for its sandy beaches and beautiful rocky coves. Not so well known are its northern shores, which consist of a large salt marsh covering about 4000 acres of land within the Burry Estuary.

The sheep graze on this tidal marsh and gain their main nourishment from this unique pasture, which consists of saltmarsh grasses, samphire, sorrel, sea lavender and thrift.