He has appeared in many British television series, including Dear John, Minder, The Professionals, Shoestring, Out, Bergerac, Agony, A Very Peculiar Practice, The High Life, Dogfood Dan & the Carmarthen Cowboy and The New Statesman.

Thus, North East Wales Institute of Higher Education ( NEWI ), Swansea Institute of Higher Education and Trinity College, Carmarthen ( who were all previously Associated Institutions ) along with the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama ( which was previously a Validated Institution ) were admitted as full members of the university on 27 July 2004.

* 28 July – It is announced that the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, Swansea Institute of Higher Education, Trinity College, Carmarthen and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama will all become part of the University of Wales.

In the 1997 General Election he stood for Plaid Cymru in Carmarthen East & Dinefwr.

The constituency was created in 1997 from parts of the former marginal seats of Pembroke & Carmarthen.

Category: Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthen & Dinefwr

The Pembroke & Tenby Company obtained powers in 1866 to extend their standard-gauge line from Whitland to Carmarthen.

Within the Act for the extension to Carmarthen was a Schedule which allowed either party ( the Pembroke & Tenby or the Great Western ) to request the Great Western for running powers to the Pembroke company.

The Pembroke & Tenby ran the first goods trains to Carmarthen on 1 June 1868, and passenger services in August 1869.

finally connecting with the Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway at Pencader.

Llywelyn had now established himself as the leader of the independent princes of Wales, and in December 1215 led an army which included all the lesser princes to capture the castles of Carmarthen, Kidwelly, Llanstephan, Cardigan and Cilgerran.

The Marshalls took advantage of Llywelyn's involvement here to land near St David's in April with an army raised in Ireland and recaptured Cardigan and Carmarthen without opposition.

# Carmarthen, Cardigan, Llanbadardfynydd, Aberystwyth

* Heron, a Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway steam locomotive built in 1861

By the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284 the territory of the native Welsh rulers had been broken up into the five counties of Anglesey, Caernarfon, Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Merioneth.

The chief seat of the rulers of Deheubarth and its traditional capital was at Dinefwr ( although Carmarthen and Cardigan also served as the kingdom's capital for certain periods ).

The English crown already had a means of governing South Wales in the honours of Carmarthen and Cardigan, which went back to 1240.

The Corgi Club was founded in December, 1925 in Carmarthen, Pembrokeshire. It is reported that the local members naturally favored the Pembroke breed, so a club for Cardigan enthusiasts was founded a year or so later.

Originally conceived as a broad-gauge line between Carmarthen and Cardigan by the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway, it was absorbed into the GWR who developed the line into Newcastle Emlyn, the company saw no point in developing the line beyond this point, and so it became a terminus.

The Teifi Valley is home to the Teifi Valley Railway, a 2-foot gauge steam railway which operates on the GWR part of the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway between Llandysul and Newcastle Emlyn.

From the summit on a clear day the Bristol Channel ( including the islands of Flat Holm and Steep Holm ), Cardigan Bay, Carmarthen Bay, Swansea Bay, the Gower Peninsula, the Black Mountains, the Cambrian Mountains, Exmoor, the town of Brecon and much of Mid Wales and the South Wales Valleys can be seen.

The broad-gauge railway was opened in 1860 from Carmarthen to Conwil by the ill-fated Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway Company ( CCR ), which fell in and out of insolvency until it was eventually absorbed by the Great Western Railway.

* Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway

In 1226 he was ordered to surrender to the crown the custody of the royal castles of Cardigan and Carmarthen which he had captured from Llywelyn.

* Lampeter – there are links to the A475 ( Cardigan ) and the A485 ( Carmarthen ) from here ;

Before the rail cuts of the 1960s, the routes were more extensive, with the towns of Cardigan and Newcastle Emlyn also served, and with a cross-country route from Carmarthen to Aberystwyth, via Lampeter.

* Central Wales and Carmarthen Junction Railway, 1891

The Gwili Railway ( Welsh: Rheilffordd Ager y Gwili ) is a Welsh heritage railway that operates a standard gauge preserved railway line from the site of Abergwili Junction ( near Carmarthen ) in South West Wales along a short section of the former Carmarthen to Aberystwyth railway that closed for passenger traffic in 1965, the track being lifted in 1975 " just as the Gwili was being established ".

The Gwili Railway has the distinction of becoming the first ever standard-gauge preserved railway to operate in Wales when it re-opened " in Spring 1978 " the one-mile section of the Carmarthen-Newcastle Emlyn route from its base at Bronwydd Arms, three miles north of Carmarthen.

Currently, as of September 2012, ( with the first of the two miles to Carmarthen North re-laid, so far ), The Gwili Railway is currently at around a total of 3½ miles in length.

Once the southern extension of the Gwili Railway towards Carmarthen North is complete, this will bring upto a total of around 4½ miles in length.

* Carmarthen Railway Station ( National Rail designation: CMN ), in West Wales

First Great Western high speed service at Carmarthen Railway Station

A Bill was approved by Parliament for the railway to extend eastwards to Carmarthen, although this was stopped when the line was bought out by the Great Western Railway in 1898.

The Celticist A. O. H. Jarman suggests the Welsh name () was derived from the toponym Caerfyrddin, the Welsh name for the town known in English as Carmarthen.

This was followed by the capture of Wiston in 1147, Carmarthen in 1150 and Loughor in 1151.

The king was absent in France in 1159, and Rhys took the opportunity to attack Dyfed and then to lay siege to Carmarthen, which was saved by a relief force led by Earl Reginald of Cornwall.

Caerwent continued to be occupied, while Carmarthen was probably abandoned in the late 4th century.

The county was bounded to the north by Brecknockshire, east by Monmouthshire, south by the Bristol Channel, and west by Carmarthenshire and Carmarthen Bay.

At the 1979 general election the party's vote share declined from 10. 8 % to 8. 1 % and Carmarthen was again lost to Labour.

In the 2001 general election, Plaid Cymru lost Wyn Jones's former seat of Ynys Môn to Albert Owen, but gained Carmarthen East and Dinefwr, where Adam Price was elected.

A poem found in the Black Book of Carmarthen refers to Bendigeidfran's death in Ireland, claiming that Gwyn ap Nudd was present at the battle, either as a warrior or in his traditional role as a psychopomp.

The girl was supposedly the widow of the sheriff of Carmarthen.

In 1540, the body of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond and father of Henry VII, was brought to be entombed in front of the High Altar from the dissolved Greyfriars ’ Priory in Carmarthen.

His first major work in the area was the first of three prisons he would design, Carmarthen 1789-92, this prison was planned by John Howard ( prison reformer ) and Nash developed this into the finished building.

Indeed, a principal station on the Carmarthen Aberystwyth Line was named after the Abbey.

Thomas was born in Port Talbot, Wales, the second son of Zachariah Thomas, a Welsh speaking miner from Carmarthen, and Emma Jane Tilbury, daughter of a founder of the English Methodist Church in Tonypandy.

* Carmarthen was the birthplace of Merlin according to Geoffrey of Monmouth.

A member of the Whig Kit-Kat Club, Steele remained in Carmarthen after Mary's death, and was buried there, at St Peter's Church.

They had one child, Francis Godolphin Osborne ( styled Marquess of Carmarthen, later 5th Duke of Leeds and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ), who was born on 29 January 1751.

The story of the Red Lady was the focus of an arts project supported by a Steps to New Music Award from the Arts Council of Wales and premiered in Carmarthen, west Wales, on 1 April 2010.

Herbert imprisoned him at Carmarthen Castle in South Wales, where he died of the plague on 3 November 1456, and was buried at Carmarthen Grey Friars.

In May 1714, Wotton was forced to abandon his rectory at Milton Keynes in order to avoid his creditors, and for seven years he lived at Carmarthen in south-west Wales under the assumed name of Dr. William Edwards.

From this support the movement for provincial eisteddfodau developed and in 1819, he was very keen to establish such a provincial eisteddfod in Carmarthen.

The first patent for a ball race was by Philip Vaughan of Carmarthen in 1794.

A public monument was erected to his memory in St Paul's Cathedral, by order of parliament, and in 1823 another was erected at Carmarthen by subscription, the king contributing a hundred guineas.