Ferryside
Ferryside is a village in the community of St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is 8.5 miles south of Carmarthen 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 846 residents
- Description: village in Carmarthenshire, Wales
- Also known as: “Glan-y-fferi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Llansteffan Castle and Ferryside railway station.
Llansteffan Castle
Photo: Emperorzurg123, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Llansteffan Castle is a privately owned castle in Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire, Wales, overlooking the River Tywi estuary in Carmarthen Bay.
Ferryside railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ferryside railway station serves the seaside village of Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The station was opened by the South Wales Railway on 11 October 1852 and is now an unstaffed stop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Llansteffan and Llansaint.
Llansteffan
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llansteffan, is a village and community situated on the south coast of Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Tywi, 7 miles south of Carmarthen.
Llansaint
Hamlet
Photo: RexRowan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Llansaint is a village of farmsteads and cottages in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It includes a cluster of 19th century stone-built houses around the church, and is surrounded by farmsteads and modern residential development.
Llanybri
Village
Photo: Peter Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llanybri is a rural farming village situated between the estuaries of the River Tywi and River Taf in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is one of two villages with their own churches in the community of Llansteffan. Llanybri is situated 2½ miles northwest of Ferryside.
Ferryside
- Category: locality
- Location: St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.7672° or 51° 46′ 2″ northLongitude
-4.3685° or 4° 22′ 7″ westPopulation
846Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB FYDOpen location code
9C3QQJ8J+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 241397580OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Ferryside” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ferryside”
- Breton: “Glan-y-fferi”
- Dutch: “Ferryside”
- French: “Ferryside”
- German: “Glan-y-fferi”
- Irish: “Glan-y-fferi”
- Italian: “Ferryside”
- Persian: “فریساید”
- Scots: “Glan-y-fferi”
- Spanish: “Ferryside”
- Swedish: “Ferryside”
- Welsh: “Ferryside”
- Welsh: “Glan y Fferi”
- Welsh: “Glan-y-fferi”
- Welsh: “Glanfferi”
- Welsh: “Glanyfferi”
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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 “Ferryside”. Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.