Ferryside
Ferryside is a town 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 crossing, then coming to be a fishing town, it has created as a vacation and also retired life area. The village has its own lifeboat station as well as was the first village in the UK to change from analogue to electronic television. Coming from as a landing-place on the ferry course to Llansteffan (the ferry was used by Giraldus Cambrensis in 1188), Ferryside developed as an angling town. In 1844 the population of the parish was 895. Much of the village developed after 1852, when it became connected to Carmarthen as well as Swansea by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Wales Railway.