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St Ishmael

St Ishmael is a hamlet and community in , Wales. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 1,327. It comprises the villages of and and the surrounding rural areas.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 1,360 residents
  • Description: village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
  • Also known as: “Llanishmael”, “Llanishmel”, “Llanismel”, “St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire”, and “St. Ishmael”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Llansteffan Castle and Ferryside railway station.

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is a privately owned castle in , , , overlooking the River Tywi estuary in .

Railway station
Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the seaside village of , , Wales. The station was opened by the South Wales Railway on 11 October 1852 and is now an unstaffed stop.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Llansteffan and Ferryside.

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, is a village and community situated on the south coast of , , lying on the estuary of the River Tywi, 7 miles south of .

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is a village in the community of St Ishmael, , Wales. It is 8.5 miles south of near the mouth of the River Tywi. Originally a ferry crossing, then becoming a fishing village, it has developed as a holiday and retirement area.

Photo: Rose and Trev Clough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small town in , in the . It has a population of 3500 people, and its major attraction is a well-kept 12th-century castle.

St Ishmael

Latitude
51.7475° or 51° 44′ 51″ north
Longitude
-4.3725° or 4° 22′ 21″ west
Population
1,360
Elevation
262 feet (80 metres)
Open location code
9C3QPJXH+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5451858889
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
7301155
Wiki­data ID
Q7593398
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“St Ishmael” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “St Ishmael”
  • Breton: “Llanismel”
  • Cebuano: “St. Ishmael”
  • Chinese: “St Ishmael”
  • Dutch: “St Ishmael”
  • French: “St Ishmael”
  • Irish: “Llanishmel”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “St Ishmael”
  • Swedish: “St. Ishmael”
  • Welsh: “Llanishmael”
  • Welsh: “Llanishmel”
  • Welsh: “Llanismel”

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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 “St Ishmael”. Photo: Cered, CC BY-SA 2.0.