Ferryside
Ferryside is a village in the area 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 going across, then coming to be a fishing village, it has developed as a vacation and retired life location. The village has its very own lifeboat terminal as well as was the initial town in the UK to change from analogue to electronic television. Originating as a landing-place on the ferry course to Llansteffan (the ferry was used by Giraldus Cambrensis in 1188), Ferryside created as a fishing town. In 1844 the population of the parish was 895. Much of the town established after 1852, when it came to be linked to Carmarthen and Swansea by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Wales Railway.