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, then ending up being a fishing town, it has created as a vacation and retirement area. The village has its very own lifeboat station and was the first town in the UK to switch over from analogue to digital television. Originating as a landing-place on the ferry path to Llansteffan (the ferry was used by Giraldus Cambrensis in 1188), Ferryside created as an angling village. In 1844 the population of the parish was 895. Much of the town created after 1852, when it came to be connected to Carmarthen and Swansea by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Wales Railway.