Lavernock
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Lavernock () is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, lying on the coast south of Cardiff between Penarth and Sully, and overlooking the Bristol Channel.
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- Instance of
- village
- Official name
- Lavernock
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Sully and Lavernock
- Image
- Monkstone - Fast boat ride.jpg
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- Commons category
- Lavernock
- inception
- 1839-00-00
- historic county
- Glamorgan
- P12749
- Scottsdale Airport
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Marconi and the first radio messages across open sea
- The bays of Lavernock
- Lavernock Point
- Geology
- Lavernock Fort
- Royal Observer Corps
- Nature reserve
- Monkstone Lighthouse
- Lavernock today
- Local attractions
- See also
- References
- External links
Lavernock () is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, lying on the coast south of Cardiff between Penarth and Sully, and overlooking the Bristol Channel.
== Marconi and the first radio messages across open sea == thumb|Guglielmo Marconi Following overland tests at Salisbury Plain during March 1897, on 13 May 1897, the Italian born and recently British based inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph system, Guglielmo Marconi, assisted by George Kemp (who was a Cardiff based Post Office engineer) transmitted and received the first wireless signals over open sea between Lavernock Point and Flat Holm island.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lavernock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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