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Stradey Castle
Stradey Castle

Stradey Castle is a mansion in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The mansion was built from the years 1850–1855 after the demolition of a house 350 metres south-west of the current site. The building was designed by Edward Haycock for David Mansel Lewis. In 1873–1874, a wing was added to the mansion by John Chessell Buckler, remaining virtually unchanged since.

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Stradey Park Cricket Ground

Stradey Park is a cricket ground in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1861, when Carmarthenshire played Glamorganshire.A venue of Llanelli Cricket Club since the 1870s, Stradey Park Rugby Stadium, which adjoins the cricket ground was selected as part of the 1887 Home Nations Championship, with the opening home match for Wales being against England. The game was arranged for the 8 January and a temporary stand was erected to allow a seating area so the club could charge higher ticket prices; but on the day the English team refused to play on the ground as the pitch was frozen. The cricket ground being in better condition was pulled into action, so the match was moved there along with the entire crowd of 8,000, many members of which were extremely unhappy as they lost their seating area. The ground was first used for a Minor Counties Championship match when Carmarthenshire played Monmouthshire in 1908. From 1908 to 1911, the ground hosted 13 Minor Counties Championship matches, with the final Minor Counties Championship fixture Carmarthenshire played on the ground coming against Buckinghamshire.The ground was first used for first-class matches in 1933, when Glamorgan played Worcestershire in the County Championship. From 1933 to 1965, the ground hosted 23 first-class matches, the last of which was between Glamorgan and Essex. County Championship cricket at the ground ended in 1965 when Glamorgan opted to concentrate their western fixtures on Swansea and Neath. Glamorgan later returned to the ground, in the capacity to play List-A matches. The first List-A match on the ground saw Glamorgan play Leicestershire in the 1988 Refuge Assurance League. From 1988 to 1993, the ground held 5 List-A matches, with the final List-A match seeing Glamorgan play Sussex in the 1993 AXA Equity and Law League.The ground was used in 1991 by Wales Minor Counties when they played Oxfordshire in the Minor Counties Championship. In local domestic cricket, the ground is the home venue of Llanelli Cricket Club.

Millennium Coastal Park
Millennium Coastal Park

The Millennium Coastal Park was originally a project undertaken by Llanelli Borough Council to transform a 12 miles stretch of industrial wasteland on the south Carmarthenshire coast into green parkland. The project was then taken over by Carmarthenshire County Council after the amalgamation of Welsh local authorities and the land was transformed into a landscaped recreational area for the general public. The park is 1000 hectares in area, cost £35 million to develop and in 2002 was awarded a Civic Trust Award. It has extensive views over the Lloughor Estuary to the Gower Peninsula. It includes a cycle track which provides traffic-free cycling and has been described as "one of the finest stretches of the whole National Cycle Network". Another feature is a wave-shaped, grass-covered landform, created from 115,000 cubic metres (4,100,000 cu ft) pulverised fuel ash, a form of "land art".Another part of the project is the Burry Port Marina which provides berthing for 250 craft in three harbours. The Discovery Centre on the waterfront provides information on the park and its facilities. The Lloughor estuary is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and is within the Carmarthen Bay Special Area of Conservation. The Millennium Coastal Park offers various wildlife habitats such as wetlands and rough grassland, and these are preserved in the Pwll Lagoon Local Nature Reserve, the Ashpits Pond Local Nature Reserve and the North Dock Dunes Local Nature Reserve.The park offers views of the Gower Peninsula on the other side of the Loughor estuary, and features a variety of visitor attractions including the North Dock visitor centre, National Wetlands Centre Wales at Penclacwydd and Sandy Water Park. The Millennium Coastal Path (a stretch of the Celtic Trail cycle route, also known as National Cycle Route 4) runs through the park.