Ferryside
Ferryside is a village in the area of St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) south of Carmarthen near the mouth of the River Tywi. Initially a ferry crossing, after that coming to be a fishing town, it has actually established as a holiday and also retirement area. The village has its own lifeboat terminal and was the initial village in the UK to change from analogue to digital tv. Originating as a landing-place on the ferry course to Llansteffan (the ferry was used by Giraldus Cambrensis in 1188), Ferryside developed as a fishing village. In 1844 the population of the parish was 895. Much of the village established after 1852, when it came to be connected to Carmarthen and also Swansea by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Wales Railway.
