When you view this website you will see a small square icon at the top of your browser. What’s that?

It’s a reduced version of this :-

Square version of the Carmarthenshire flag


Which is a square version of a flag representing Carmarthenshire. It shows the golden lion of of Rhys ap Tewdwr Mawr, the King of Deheubarth (c. 1040 – 1093). This was used as the banner of the House of Dinefwr and the Kin …… Read more

This News and Views page is managed by WordPress software using its well known Blog style. The navigation menu at the top-right links it into the rest of the Our Tywi Valley website. It is locally hosted on the same server but may respond a little slower than other pages due to the additional software overhead.

Unlike the rest of the site there is only one instanc …… Read more

by Jonathan F Dean

The long speculated north south pylon line seems to be on.  Identified as critical to the U.K. government’s aim for clean power by 2030, necessary to get electricity from Scotland to south Wales and facilitating the mass building of onshore wind farms in mid Wales, National Grid are now offering connection agreements to it

How did we get he …… Read more