Burry Port
Burry Port is a port town and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, on the Loughor estuary, to the west of Llanelli and south-east of Kidwelly.
Burry Port is a port town and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, on the Loughor estuary, to the west of Llanelli and south-east of Kidwelly. Its population was recorded at 5,680 in the 2001 census and 6,156 in the 2011 census, and estimated at 5,998 in 2019. The town has a harbour.
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Worth seeing in and around Burry Port
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Whiteford Lighthouse
Lighthouse at Whiteford Point, Gower Peninsula, Swansea, Wales, UK
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Burry Port
- Airports
- Cardiff (CWL), 71 km · Bristol (BRS), 111 km · Birmingham (BHX), 191 km
- Stations
- Pembrey Airport, 5 km · Pembrey and Burry Port railway station, 700 m · Burry Port Lighthouse, 1.4 km · Burry Port Lifeboat Station, 1.2 km
- Cardiff → Burry Port77 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–11
- Bristol → Burry Port117 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £14–19
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Burry Port183 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · £22–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Burry Port
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Burry Port. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSome of these come from Manchester Piccadilly via Cardiff, heading for Fishguard (for ferries to Ireland) or Milford Haven.
From Wikivoyage: Kidwelly, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Burry Port is 23 km from Swansea, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Carwayvillage in Carmarthenshire, Wales5.4 km
- Pwllvillage in Carmarthenshire, Wales2.8 km
- Sandyvillage in Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK5.1 km