South Wales
Carmarthenshire
Llanelli Rural

Sandy

Sandy is an area in the county of in south-west , on the western border of town, about 5 miles east of . The area is home to Sandy Water Park, a large project which has seen acres of disused industrial land converted to parkland and a lake.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: village in Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
  • Also known as: “Sandy, Carmarthenshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Llanelli Town Hall and Llanelly House.

Town hall
Photo: Roger Pagram, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a municipal building in Church Street, , , South Wales. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Llanelli Borough Council and now serves as a register office, is a Grade II listed building.

Historic building
Photo: Ham, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an historic property early-18th-century Georgian town house in , , . It had been described as "the most outstanding domestic building of its early Georgian type to survive in South Wales." The then Member…

Museum
Photo: Dara Jasumani, CC BY-SA 2.0.
& Art Gallery is a museum in a 19th-century Italianate country house, situated in 24 acres of parkland, north of the town centre of in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Llanelli and Cwmbach.

Photo: Lesbardd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a large town in that sums up everything that South Wales was historically about: Rugby Union, religious nonconformity, proud preservation of the Welsh language, metal-bashing of steel for car production and tinplate for tin cans — and brownfield desolation when this industry declined.

Village
is a small hamlet in Stradey Woods between and in , Wales. The village was home to a chapel and a public house.

Village
Photo: David Lewis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small coastal village, located between and , , Wales. Situated on a narrow ledge above the tidal Burry Estuary, the village offers panoramic views across the water to the Gower Peninsula and is traversed by the Millennium Coastal Path, a thirteen-mile traffic-free greenway connecting Bynea to Pembrey.

Sandy

Latitude
51.68541° or 51° 41′ 8″ north
Longitude
-4.17302° or 4° 10′ 23″ west
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
Open location code
9C3QMRPG+5Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4393903427
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
13270299
Wiki­data ID
Q7417111
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Sandy” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Sandy”
  • Breton: “Sandy”
  • Dutch: “Sandy”
  • French: “Sandy”
  • Irish: “San-Dŷ”
  • Japanese: “サンディー”
  • Welsh: “Pont y Sandy”
  • Welsh: “San-Dŷ”
  • Welsh: “Sandy”
  • Welsh: “Traethle”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Furnace and Mount Pleasant.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Ysgol Gymraeg Ffwrnes and Llanelli Tennis and Squash Club.

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