Ferryside
Ferryside is a town in the neighborhood of St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is 8.5 miles (13.7 kilometres) south of Carmarthen near the mouth of the River Tywi. Initially a ferry crossing, then coming to be an angling town, it has developed as a vacation and also retirement area. The town has its very own lifeboat station and was the first village in the UK to change from analogue to digital tv. Coming from as a landing-place on the ferryboat path to Llansteffan (the ferry was used by Giraldus Cambrensis in 1188), Ferryside created as an angling village. In 1844 the population of the parish was 895. Much of the village created after 1852, when it became linked to Carmarthen as well as Swansea by Isambard Kingdom Brunel's South Wales Railway.