Ferryside
Ferryside is a village in the neighborhood 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 ferry going across, after that coming to be a fishing town, it has developed as a holiday and retired life area. The village has its own lifeboat station and also was the first village in the UK to change from analogue to electronic tv. Originating as a landing-place on the ferryboat path to Llansteffan (the ferry was made use of by Giraldus Cambrensis in 1188), Ferryside established as a fishing village. In 1844 the population of the parish was 895. Much of the village created after 1852, when it became connected to Carmarthen and Swansea by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Wales Railway.