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A postcard of the park from 1908. The velodrome is 405.38 metres long, [1] and is the centre piece of Carmarthen Park. Officially opened on Easter Monday in 1900, [2] it has been in continuous use ever since, and is believed to be the oldest outdoor concrete velodrome in continuous use in the world.
Big Bus Tours (formerly Les Cars Rouges and The Big Bus Company), is an operator of open top bus sightseeing tours founded in May 2011 after "Les Cars Rouges" and the "Big Bus Company" merged. The company operates in 23 cities of 11 countries with more than 150 buses around the world. [ 4 ]
In 1840, a printing press was set up in Carmarthen by William Spurrell (1813–1889), who wrote a history of the town and compiled and published an 1848 Welsh-English dictionary and an 1850 English–Welsh dictionary. [27] Today's Collins Welsh dictionary is known as the "Collins Spurrell". A local housing authority in Carmarthen is named Heol ...
Wales is an emerging tourist destination, with 9.39m visitors to Conwy alone in 2018 [1] and 8,078,900 visitors to National Trust and Wales Tourist Board destinations in 2002. [2]
Carmarthen Castle and River Towy, a print by Thomas Pennant (1781) The castle is in the county town of Carmarthen located 20 metres (66 ft) above sea level on a high terrace overlooking the tidal River Towy. [3] Carmarthen Bridge lies below the castle, at what was the lowest bridging point of the river 11 miles (18 km) from the sea. [3]
One of the best-known people to be buried at St Peter's is the 18th-century satirist, Sir Richard Steele, who married a local woman, Mary Scurlock, and died in Carmarthen in 1729. [2] Until the 19th century, St Peter's was the only Anglican church in Carmarthen. This changed with the opening of St David's Church in the late 1830s. Repairs and ...