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Carmarthenshire ( or Sir Gâr) is a unitary authority in the south west of Wales and the largest of the thirteen historic counties. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre of Carmarthenshire but the most populous settlement is Llanelli.
Carmarthenshire has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The town of Carmarthen was founded by the Romans and the region was part of the Principality of Deheubarth during the High Middle Ages. It saw turbulent times during the invasion by the Normans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries before it was subjugated, along with other parts of Wales, by Edward I of England. Further unrest occurred in the early fifteenth century when the Welsh rebelled under Owain Glyndŵr, and more strife occurred during the English Civil War in the seventeenth century.
Carmarthenshire is mainly an agricultural county, apart from the southeastern part which at one time was heavily-industrialised with coal mining, steel-making and tin-plating. In the north of the county the woollen industry was very important in the eighteenth century. Nowadays the economy of the county depends on agriculture, forestry, fishing and tourism. With the decline in its industrial base and the low profitability of the livestock sector, Carmarthenshire is economically one of the worst-performing regions in the United Kingdom.
As a tourist destination, Carmarthenshire is not as well known as some other parts of Wales, but does offer a wide range of outdoor activities. Much of the coast is fairly flat; it includes the Millennium Coastal Park, which extends for ten miles to the west of Llanelli and the National Wetlands Centre, a championship golf course and the harbours of Burry Port and Pembrey. Further west are the sandy beaches at Llansteffan and Pendine, and Dylan Thomas' boathouse at Laugharne. Further inland there are a number of medieval castles located in strategic positions, as well as hillforts and standing stones.
Carmarthenshire was a parliamentary constituency in Wales which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until its representation was increased to two members for the 1832 general election.
At the 1885 general election, it was divided into two new single-member seats: Carmarthenshire East and Carmarthenshire West.
Usage examples of "carmarthenshire".
This excellent man was born at Llandovery, in Carmarthenshire, in the year 1579, and died there in 1644.
Llandovery, from which place you may visit the scenes of this legend, is a charming little town in East Carmarthenshire, situated in glorious surroundings of mountains, vale, and moorland, where some of the finest salmon and trout fishing in South Wales may be enjoyed.
These are aristocrats who, although untitled and owners only of a few modest acres back in Carmarthenshire, descend from ancestors that looked down on William the Conqueror as a plebeian upstart.
Wales, in Carmarthenshire, one of its western counties, very close to Tegfan.
Tegfan, his large Welsh Carmarthenshire estate, Geraint Penderyn, Earl of Wyvern, did not venture beyond the house and park.
And if the idea of getting together all the farmers of this, part of Carmarthenshire to do so is not going to work, then maybe I will have to start doing it myself.
They paid tolls on the vast quantities of lime they had to haul for fertilizing their fields, and they paid frequent tolls because there were several different trusts in Carmarthenshire and they all had their gates and their charges.
This is the legend of the origin of the Welsh black cattle, as related to me in Carmarthenshire: In times of old there was a band of elfin ladies who used to haunt the neighbourhood of Llyn Barfog, a lake among the hills just back of Aberdovey.