Llanelli & east Carmarthenshire · Village
Part of the Llanelli, Burry Port & the Amman Valley area guide
Pontyberem
A practical local guide to habitats worth checking and the plants most likely to need careful identification.
Map of Pontyberem
51.7783, -4.1714
The map shows the general area only. It does not mark confirmed invasive plant sites or individual properties.
About the area
Pontyberem facts
Pontyberem is a Gower-edge settlement of lanes, hedge banks, farmland and older stone boundaries. It is part of the Llanelli, Burry Port & the Amman Valley area, within about 30 miles of Swansea.
- Pontyberem Colliery opened in 1845, and the village grew with coal through the early twentieth century.
- It lies in the Gwendraeth Valley, roughly halfway between Carmarthen and Llanelli.
- 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 Pontyberem.
This is habitat guidance, not a claim that a particular property or site is infested.
