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The Best Attractions In Carmarthenshire

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Carmarthenshire is a unitary authority in southwest Wales, and one of the historic counties of Wales. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre. Carmarthenshire has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The county town was founded by the Romans, and the region was part of the Principality of Deheubarth in the High Middle Ages. After invasion by the Normans in the 12th and 13th centuries it was subjugated, along with other parts of Wales, by Edward I of England. There was further unrest in the early 15th century, when the Welsh rebelled under Owain Glyndŵr, and during the E...
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The Best Attractions In Carmarthenshire

  • 2. Kidwelly Castle Carmarthen
    Kidwelly is a town and community in Carmarthenshire, south west Wales, approximately 7 miles north-west of the most populous town in the county, Llanelli. In the 2001 census the community of Kidwelly returned a population of 3,289, increasing to 3,523 at the 2011 Census. It lies on the River Gwendraeth above Carmarthen Bay.
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  • 3. National Botanic Garden of Wales Llanarthney
    The National Botanic Garden of Wales is at Llanarthney in the River Tywi valley, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The garden is both a visitor attraction and a centre for botanical research and conservation, and features the world's largest single-span glasshouse measuring 110 m long by 60 m wide.The National Botanic Garden of Wales seeks to develop a viable world-class national botanic garden dedicated to the research and conservation of biodiversity, lifelong learning and the enjoyment of the visitor. The Garden is a registered charity reliant upon funding from visitors, friends, grants and gifts. Significant start-up costs were shared with the UK Millennium Fund.
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  • 4. Dinefwr Llandeilo
    Carmarthen East and Dinefwr is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. It was created in 1997, mostly from the former seat of Carmarthen. The current MP is Plaid Cymru's Jonathan Edwards. The Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
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  • 5. Pendine Sands Pendine
    Pendine Sands is 7 miles of beach on the shores of Carmarthen Bay on the south coast of Wales. It stretches west to east from Gilman Point to Laugharne Sands. The village of Pendine is close to the western end of Pendine Sands. In the early 1900s the sands were used as a venue for car and motor cycle races. From 1922 the annual Welsh TT motor cycle event was held at Pendine Sands. The firm, flat surface of the beach created a race track that was straighter and smoother than many major roads of the time. Motor Cycle magazine described the sands as the finest natural speedway imaginable.
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  • 9. Llanelly House Llanelli
    Llanelli is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1918 to 1970 the official spelling of the constituency name was Llanelly. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. The Llanelli Welsh Assembly constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999.
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  • 11. Pembrey Beach Pembrey
    Pembrey is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales, situated between Burry Port and Kidwelly, overlooking Carmarthen Bay.
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  • 12. Laugharne Castle Carmarthen
    Laugharne is a town located on the south coast of Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Tâf. Laugharne is within the electoral ward and community of Laugharne Township The population at the 2011 census was 1,222.The ward includes Laugharne, the village of Pendine and Pendine Sands. It was the civil parish corresponding to the marcher borough of Laugharne. A predominantly English-speaking area, just south of the Landsker Line, it is bordered by the communities of Llanddowror, St Clears, Llangynog and Llansteffan. Laugharne was the home of Dylan Thomas from 1949 until his death in 1953, and is thought to have been the inspiration for the fictional town of Llareggub in Under Milk Wood, though topographically it is more similar to New Quay where Thomas mostly lived whilst ...
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  • 13. Llansteffan Castle Llansteffan
    Llansteffan, also anglicized as Llan- or Lanstephan, is a village and a community situated on the south coast of Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Tywi, 7 miles south of Carmarthen. The community is bordered by the communities of: Laugharne Township; Llangynog; Llangain; St Ishmael; and Pembrey and Burry Port Town. Llansteffan means parish of Saint Stephen, but honours a 6th-century Welsh associate of Saint Teilo rather than the more widely known protomartyr. The parish of Llansteffan consists of two distinct villages with separate churches: Llansteffan by the estuary and Llanybri inland on the hilltop. St Ystyffan's church is a grade II* listed building. Between the castle and village sits Plas Llanstephan, Lord Kylsant's former residence, which is also a grade II*...
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