Ferryside
Ferryside is a village in the neighborhood of St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) south of Carmarthen near the mouth of the River Tywi. Initially a ferry crossing, then coming to be a fishing village, it has actually developed as a holiday and retired life area. The village has its very own lifeboat station and also was the first village in the UK to switch from analogue to electronic tv. Originating as a landing-place on the ferryboat path to Llansteffan (the ferry was made use of by Giraldus Cambrensis in 1188), Ferryside established as an angling village. In 1844 the population of the parish was 895. Much of the village established after 1852, when it became connected to Carmarthen and Swansea by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Wales Railway.