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Rhoose Point () is a headland and a settlement near the village of

Rhoose Rhoose ( ; , from ) is a village and community near the sea (the Bristol Channel) in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, near Barry. The wider community includes villages and settlements such as Font-y-Gary, Penmark, East Aberthaw and Porthkerr ...

in the

Vale of Glamorgan The Vale of Glamorgan ( ), locally referred to as ''The Vale'', is a Principal areas of Wales, county borough in the South East Wales, south-east of Wales. It borders Bridgend County Borough to the west, Cardiff to the east, Rhondda Cynon Taf t ...

, Wales. Rhoose Point is the most southerly point of mainland Wales. A permanent notice installed by The Vale of Glamorgan Council marks Rhoose Point as the most southerly part of Wales's mainland. Rhoose cement works, an asbestos factory and a quarry used to be located to the north of Rhoose Point. This land has been reclaimed and is the site of the Rhoose Point housing scheme, where over 1,000 houses have greatly extended the village of Rhoose. In 2000, a monument designed by David Lock Associates comprising a large

standing stone A menhir (; from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright rock (geology), stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the Eur ...

in a

stone circle A stone circle is a ring of megalithic standing stones. Most are found in Northwestern Europe – especially Stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany – and typically date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, with most being ...

was erected on reclaimed land by the development company Cofton (Wales) Ltd.Inscription on the standing stone visible in :c:File:"Menhir" at Rhoose Point - geograph.org.uk - 981204.jpg.

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* Headlands of the Vale of Glamorgan Rhoose {{ValeofGlamorgan-geo-stub