Ferryside
Ferryside is a village in the area of St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is 8.5 miles (13.7 kilometres) south of Carmarthen near the mouth of the River Tywi. Originally a ferryboat crossing, after that becoming a fishing village, it has developed as a holiday and also retirement area. The village has its own lifeboat terminal as well as was the first town in the UK to change from analogue to digital television. Coming from as a landing-place on the ferryboat path to Llansteffan (the ferryboat was utilized by Giraldus Cambrensis in 1188), Ferryside established as a fishing village. In 1844 the population of the parish was 895. Much of the town created after 1852, when it came to be linked to Carmarthen as well as Swansea by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Wales Railway.
