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The origins of Chartism in Wales can be traced to the foundation in the autumn of 1836 of Carmarthen Working Men's Association. [28] Carmarthen gaol, authorised by the Carmarthen Improvement Act 1792 (32 Geo. 3. c. 104) and designed by John Nash, was in use from about the year 1789 until its demolition in 1922. The site is now taken by County ...
Ffos Las racecourse was built on the site of an open cast coal mine after mining operations ceased. Opened in 2009, it was the first racecourse built in the United Kingdom for eighty years and has regular race-days. [46] Machynys is a championship golf course opened in 2005 and built as part of the Llanelli Waterside regeneration plan. [47]
Carmarthen Park: 1973: Stone circle: Stone: Erected to mark the 1974 National Eisteddfod of Wales: Carmarthen Dragon Blue Street Roundabout, A4232, Carmarthen: 2007: Tony Woodman Sculpture of a dragon: Stainless steel: Originally made for the Heart of the Dragon Festival in Newcastle Emlyn [13] Merlin Merlin's Walk, Carmarthen: 2010: Simon Hedger
The Carmarthen Public Rooms were built in 1854, [1] with the intention to create public rooms were first expressed by Dr David Lloyd in 1839. [ 2 ] Commonly referred to as the "Assembly Rooms" the building was designed by James Wilson (architect) of Bath [ 3 ] on the site of the Scurlock family town house, where Sir Richard Steele , founder of ...
Oldest canal in Wales, built in 1766 to carry coal via a tramroad over the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pwll-y-Llygod, and 3 miles of canal to Kidwelly harbour. Later extended and then in 1873 the towpath was converted into a railway.
These included the gaols built in Carmarthen and Cardigan by John Nash and the gaols at Caernarfon (1793), Ruthin (1785) and Flint (1775) by Joseph Turner. [138] Most of these prisons were closed in the 1870s, but the Ruthin gaol, now used as the Denbighshire County Record Office is remarkably well preserved.
Carmarthen Castle (Welsh: Castell Caerfyrddin) is a ruined castle in Carmarthen, West Wales, UK. First built by Walter, Sheriff of Gloucester in the early 1100s, the castle was captured and destroyed on several occasions before being rebuilt in stone during the 1190s.
The foundation stone for the new building was laid on 10 April 1767: [2] it was designed by Sir Robert Taylor in the neoclassical style, built in rubble masonry and completed in 1777. [ 1 ] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto Guildhall Square; it was originally arcaded on the ground floor, so that markets ...