Llanelli · Carmarthenshire
Llanelli · Burry Port · Pembrey
Selling a home here means knowing the place a buyer is choosing: the tinplate town, its streets and station, and thirteen miles of coast path to the west.
The town
Llanelli grew in the early nineteenth century into a world centre of tinplate, the tin-coated steel sheet that, among much else, made the saucepans of the town's song, Sosban Fach. The works have closed; the town still carries the song.
Buyers come for the streets, for the coast, and for the run to work in Swansea or Carmarthen. Some are moving back.
Landmarks with a date on them
Built for Thomas Stepney; it keeps the old spelling of the town's name.
An Italianate house, opened with its grounds as a people's park on 21 September 1912. Its museum holds a large collection of Llanelly Pottery.
The station is on both the West Wales line and the Heart of Wales line. The Llanelli Riots happened there on 19 August 1911, during the first national railway strike.
The town's theatre, opened late in 2012 in place of the earlier one.
West along the water
Thirteen miles (21 km) of walking and cycling path, part of National Cycle Route 4, run along the coast from Bynea in the east to Pembrey Country Park in the west. More than 2,000 acres of former industrial land were cleaned up to make it.
Burry Port lies five miles west of Llanelli; its harbour is now a marina. On 18 June 1928 Amelia Earhart's seaplane came down on the estuary, and she came ashore at Burry Port as the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air. Beyond it, Cefn Sidan runs for nearly eight miles of beach to Tywyn Point near Kidwelly.
What a sale here meets
Llanelli, Ammanford and Burry Port are the county's main urban areas with old coal workings, and coal was mined here from at least the sixteenth century until 1986. A coal-mining search is common; the conveyancer orders it, and anyone can run the government's online check first.
An estuary town gets flood questions. Natural Resources Wales runs a check of flood risk by postcode, which gives the risk to an area; we include it in the material information.
Since 1 April 2018, buyers of property in Wales pay Land Transaction Tax, collected by the Welsh Revenue Authority. The buyer's conveyancer deals with it. It is not stamp duty, and we never call it that.
Iaith · language
At the 2021 Census, 72,838 people in Carmarthenshire aged three and over could speak Welsh: 39.9 per cent, down from 43.9 per cent in 2011. In Lliedi ward, where our registered office is, the figure was 26.0 per cent. This site is written in both languages, and place names are spelled the way the places spell them.