South Wales
Carmarthenshire
Betws

Betws

Betws is a small village and community on the River Amman in , Wales, some 15 miles north of ; it is part of the ecclesiastical parish of Betws and , and the urban area of Ammanford.
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  • Type: Village with 2,400 residents
  • Description: village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales
  • Also known as: “Betws, Carmarthenshire” and “Y Betws”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bethany Chapel and Ammanford Town Hall.

Church
Photo: Marion Phillips, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bethany was a Calvinistic Methodist/ Presbyterian Church of Wales chapel in , , , from 1881 to 2023. Services were conducted in Welsh, despite some members of the original founding committee proposing an English language chapel.

Town hall
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a municipal building located on Iscennen Street in in in Wales. The structure is currently used as the offices and meeting place of Ammanford Town Council.

Railway station
Photo: Marion Phillips, CC BY-SA 2.0.
in , , , is 12 miles north of on the Heart of Wales Line. The station opened in 1841 as a temporary terminus of the Llanelly Railway's line to , making it one of the country's earlier railway stations.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ammanford and Pantyffynnon.

Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town and community in , . At the 2021 census the community had a population of 5,445, and the wider built up area had a population of 8,285.

Village
is a small village in , Wales, half a mile south-west of , and a mile east of . It lies between the rivers and Amman at the foot of Mynydd y Betws.

Village
is a village in , Wales. As measured in the 2011 Census, the population of electoral ward was 2,438 persons. At the 2011 Census all the population was counted in community. is situated 2 miles southwest of Betws.

Betws

Latitude
51.78845° or 51° 47′ 18″ north
Longitude
-3.98377° or 3° 59′ 2″ west
Population
2,400
Elevation
141 feet (43 metres)
Open location code
9C3RQ2Q8+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 841332938
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2655799
Wiki­data ID
Q850566
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Betws” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Betws”
  • Breton: “Y Betws”
  • Catalan: “Betws”
  • Cebuano: “Betws”
  • Chinese: “Betws”
  • Dutch: “Betws”
  • French: “Betws”
  • German: “Betws”
  • Irish: “Betws”
  • Italian: “Betws”
  • Japanese: “ベトウス”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Betws”
  • Swedish: “Betws, Carmarthenshire”
  • Swedish: “Betws”
  • Welsh: “Betws”
  • Welsh: “Y Betws”

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Highlights include Capel Newydd and Saint David’s.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Betws”. Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.