Cwm Llwyd Fault, Ammanford

#2 among attractions in Ammanford

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The Cwm Llwyd Fault is a fault in the west of the Black Mountain of South Wales. It runs north, parallel to the A4069 road, for over 4 km from near Brynaman to meet the Carreg Cennen Disturbance near Brest Cwm Llwyd. It moved as a sinistral strike-slip fault during the Variscan Orogeny. Together with the Llwyn Celyn Fault it formed a left-stepping offset that created a pull apart structure, which preserved the Cwm Llwyd Outlier of Namurian rocks. ()

Coordinates: 51°50'21"N, 3°52'22"W

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Ammanford United Kingdom

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Cwm Llwyd Fault – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Carreg Cennen Castle, Y Garn Goch, All Saints Church, Tair Carn Uchaf.

2.8 miW
Forts and castles, Historical place, View point
Carreg Cennen Castle, Brecon Beacons
73 min walk • Carreg Cennen Castle is a castle sited on a high rocky outcrop overlooking the River Cennen, close to the village of Trap, four miles south of Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
4.5 miN
Archaeological site
Y Garn Goch, Brecon Beacons
116 min walk • Y Garn Goch is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park in the east of Carmarthenshire, Wales. The name means the 'red cairn'. It lies near the village of Bethlehem, three miles southwest of Llangadog and four miles east of Llandeilo on the southern side of the broad Towy Valley.
5.8 miSW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
All Saints Church, Ammanford
148 min walk • All Saints Church, Ammanford is an Anglican parish church in the town of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It was erected between 1911 and 1915 by W. D. Jenkins of Llandeilo. The tower was added between 1924 and 1926 as a war memorial, this time the architect being Charles Mercer of Swansea.
1.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Tair Carn Uchaf, Brecon Beacons
44 min walk • Tair Carn Uchaf is a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales. Its summit sits atop a plateau-like ridge at 482 metres above sea level and is marked by one of the three huge cairns which give the mountain its name.
1.9 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Garreg Lwyd, Brecon Beacons
48 min walk • Garreg Lwyd, also known as Moel Gornach, is a peak in the Black Mountain of the Brecon Beacons, South Wales. It is a subsidiary summit of Fan Brycheiniog. It is the westernmost area over 2,000 feet above sea level in South Wales.
2.9 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Foel Fraith, Brecon Beacons
74 min walk • Foel Fraith is a hill in the Black Mountain in the county of Carmarthenshire, southwest Wales. It lies within the Brecon Beacons National Park and Fforest Fawr Geopark. Its plateau-like summit attains a height of 602 metres above sea level.
5.5 miSW
Forts and castles
Penlle'r Castell, Swansea
141 min walk • Penlle'r Castell is an historic ruin on the summit of Mynydd y Betws in the far north of the City and County of Swansea. The Penlle'r Castell site was probably a late 13th-century stronghold garrisoned by one of the Marcher Lords.
5.1 miNW
Protected area
Tregyb Woodlands, Llandeilo
130 min walk • Tregyb Woodlands is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthen & Dinefwr, Wales. Designated as a SSSI since 1980 as a conservation effort to protect and conserve the site, its area is 27 hectares.
5.7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mynydd y Betws
145 min walk • Mynydd y Betws is a mountain or large hill located on the border between Swansea and Carmarthenshire in South Wales, between Ammanford and Clydach. It is an area of upland with large stretches of tussocky grassland.
6.6 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Swansea Valley
168 min walk • The Swansea Valley is one of the South Wales Valleys. It is the valley from the Brecon Beacons National Park to the sea at Swansea of the River Tawe in Wales.
2.6 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Llygad Llwchwr, Brecon Beacons
67 min walk • Llygad Llwchwr is a 1.2 km-long cave system in the Black Mountain which forms the westernmost range of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales.