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NOTE- last few meters can be tricky, lots of Muggles, and you need to be a little agile and supple.
Like many small towns on the South Wales coast, Burry Port has its roots in heavy industry. The harbour was built in the 1830s to ship coal from the Gwendraeth Valley. Tinplate, copper, silver and lead works grew up alongside. Until the 1960s, a 500-acre munitions works produced gunpowder and dynamite among the dunes of neighbouring Pembrey Burrows. And for decades, the vast Carmarthen Bay power station dominated the coastline.
Now, all that’s gone – Pembrey Burrows is a country park, the demolished power station has been replaced by a lake, and the harbour is a yachty pleasure marina. Burry Port is still in the process of reinvention, but it has a lot of attractions – not least, its eight-mile beach. The local council describes the town as ‘West Wales’ best-kept secret’.