Carmarthen & west Carmarthenshire · Village
Part of the Carmarthen, the Tywi & the Taf Estuary area guide
Newcastle Emlyn
A practical local guide to habitats worth checking and the plants most likely to need careful identification.
Map of Newcastle Emlyn
52.0388, -4.4676
The map shows the general area only. It does not mark confirmed invasive plant sites or individual properties.
About the area
Newcastle Emlyn facts
Newcastle Emlyn is a Gower-edge settlement of lanes, hedge banks, farmland and older stone boundaries. It is part of the Carmarthen, the Tywi & the Taf Estuary area, within about 30 miles of Swansea.
- Newcastle Emlyn Castle was built around 1240 by the Welsh lord Maredudd ap Rhys.
- The ruined castle sits on a steep promontory in a loop of the River Teifi.
- Sits on or close to the Gower Peninsula, the United Kingdom's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, designated in 1956.
- Field boundaries, lanes and older stone walls give the area its long-established rural pattern.
General local background, kept separate from the plant guidance below.
Local habitat
Where to look
Hedge banks, garden edges, lanes, ditches and nearby fields are the main places where invasive or escaping garden plants can establish around Newcastle Emlyn.
This is habitat guidance, not a claim that a particular property or site is infested.
