Llanddeusant Carmarthenshire

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Enclosed stony track leading down to Gellygron, Llandeusant

Colin Park

Llandeusant Church (Black Mountain)

Colin Park

Afon Sawdde

Dani

Rhydio Garnant / Fording Garnant

Llwybr i'r mynydd yn rhydio Garnant < Garwnant. Gerllaw y safai bwthyn o'r un enw a fu'n gartref i Dafydd Wyn a'i deulu. Bugail y mynydd oedd Dafydd ac fe'i hanfarwolwyd ef mewn cerdd gan Thomas Twynog Jeffreys (1844-1911), brodor o'r plwyf. A path to the mountain fords Garnant < Garwnant (trans. rough stream). Nearby stood a cottage of the same name where shepherd Dafydd Wyn and his family resided and were immortalised in a poem by Thomas Twynog Jeffreys (1844-1911), a native of the parish.

Alan Richards

Llanddeusant Church

There is a youth hostel close to the church.

Nigel Davies

Llanddeusant Graveyard

This graveyard is across the road from the church. On this side of the road you can be buried in the shadow of the Carmarthen Fans.

Nigel Davies

Junction leading to Llyn-y-Fan Fach

This is what separates the brave driver from the amateur tourist. Don't stay on the road to the right. That just goes to a farm. Visitors to the lake must face the track straight ahead.

Nigel Davies

Lane to car park below Llyn-y-Fan Fach

This narrow, loose, stony, pot-holed lane is passable in any car, but you'll never get out of first gear.

Nigel Davies

Cross Inn

A pub on the road from Twynllanan to Trecastle.

Nigel Davies

Buildings on the road from Llanddeusant to Cross Inn

On an unforgivingly windy, steep and narrow road from Llanddeusant to Cross Inn lie a couple of houses. Feels like a long way from anywhere.

Nigel Davies

Red Kites Feeding at Llanddeusant

Andy Lesnianski

Afon Sychlwch

The river is fed by many streams originating below the Bannau Sir Gaer ridge. There are plenty of round boulders in this area, indicating that an ice-age glacier ended near here.

Rudi Winter

Woods near the Afon Sychlwch

Looking down from Cefn Nant Lygos, the slope leading up to the western end of the Bannau Sir Gaer ridge. The river is hidden among the trees at the base of the slope.

Rudi Winter

Gelli-onen farmhouse

Farm building at the end of the public part of the road from Llanddeusant to Llyn y Fan Fach.

Rudi Winter

Sawdde Valley

Near the end of the public part of the access road from Llanddeusant to Llyn y Fan Fach. The Afon Sawdde is dug in deep to the south (right in the picture) of the road, with plenty of deciduous trees growing along its banks. Apart from the trench in which the river flows, the square is mostly enclosed grazing land, with a little commons in the higher NE corner. The mountains in the background are the Bannau Sir Gaer 4km SE.

Rudi Winter