Llandovery and the West

Spending time in and around Llandovery or Llandeilo? Then take a look at what these places have to offer.

Quite a few of the attractions of this area date back to one rivalry or another.

Vale of Towy from Garn Goch

Vale of Towy from Garn Goch. Our Iron Age ancestors used the plentiful Silurian gritstone blocks to construct two great enclosures here. Fifteen thousand years earlier this wide vale was home to the sizeable Towy Valley glacier carrying great volumes of ice from mid Wales.

  • Carreg Cennen Castle — imposing fortifications atop an impressive natural limestone cliff
  • Y Garn Goch — the largest Iron Age hill-fort in all of South Wales
  • Llandovery — historic market town at a meeting point of rivers and roads
  • Sawdde Gorge — a deep gash through the hills of the Geopark’s north-west