Llandovery Album: Pictures of a Welsh Market Town

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The nearby Penygawse Tea Rooms is a favourite with locals and visitors alike. Here, the welcome is as warm as their famous toasted panini's. Enjoy the triple cooked chips and the tiffin, though it’s best not to have them together! This magnificent, manmade dam is Britain’s highest dam at an impressive 91 metres tall and had super scenic surroundings.

We stayed in their New York Cottage, it’s a rustic, mezzanine cottage that with original features, including a free-standing bath, lovely log burner and a veranda with views. Why not rent a room from a Llandovery local with Airbnb? There are a plethora of unique accommodationoptions in Llandovery, including yurts, cottages and riverside pods. Llandovery ( / l æ n ˈ d ʌ v r i/; Welsh: Llanymddyfri [ɬanəmˈðəvrɪ]) is a market town and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It lies on the River Tywi and at the junction of the A40 and A483 roads, about 25 miles (40km) north-east of Carmarthen, 27 miles (43km) north of Swansea and 21 miles (34km) west of Brecon. Tiago Gambogi and Maggi Swallow are organising all the performers for the Llandovery Sheep Festival including Brazilian and Samba rhythms, theatre performances, circus acts and lots more.

Food and drink from our farmers' markets, farm shops, bakeries and delis

Visit Williams' grave at Llanfair Church or go in search of the tomb of Ficer Rhys Pritchard (1579 - 1644), clergyman and poet, author of Cannwyll y Cymro (The Welshman's Candle) - a collection of moral teachings in poetical form. His reputed desk can still be seen in the Heritage Centre, together with his cwpwrdd tri-darn. This scenic train line runs through the rural heartlands of Wales and connects smaller communities and rather rustic stations.

David Watkins, 2008, Sporting Highlights of Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil: TCC Books. ISBN 0-9539376-6-6. Llandovery is one of those small towns in Wales that you could easily miss off your Wales itinerary. There are actually lots of reasons to visit Llandovery though. It really is an impressive skill to bring dark and eerie caves to life. The guides managed to paint a picture of life underground and the hardships and challenges miners would have faced. Llandovery was an important coaching centre on the turnpike road from London (now the A40). When the railway reached Llandovery in 1858 it dealt a death blow to the drover’s trade and mail coaches. Spend some time exploring the nearby Brecon Beacons, the Usk Reservoir and the towns of Llanwrtyd Wells and Llandeilo.

The statue of a drover behind a bench close to the Llandovery Museum and Visitor Gateway, is a great photo opportunity – bet you’ve never been photo bombed by a drover before!