Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales Genealogy

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History
Carmarthen (Welsh: Caerfyrddyn) is a town, community and ecclesiastical parish in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The town is beautifully situated on the northwestern bank of the navigable river Tywi, or Towy, about nine miles from its influx into that portion of the Bristol Channel called Carmarthen bay, on a moderate eminence, which commands some of the finest views in the Vale of Towy, and imparts to the town a striking and picturesque appearance. The town is wholly within the parish of ST. PETER which is situated without the walls of the ancient Carmarthen, but nearly in the centre of the present town. It is supposed to have been originally a cruciform structure, in the early style of English architecture; but of the ancient building only the nave, chancel, and north transept are remaining. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, Calvinistic Methodists, and Unitarians.www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx]

For more information on Carmarthen see Carmarthen at Genuki.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Carmarthen at Vision of Britain.