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Llanpumsaint

Llanpumsaint is a village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

The place

Llanpumsaint is a village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales. In the 2001 UK Census, Llanpumsaint community had a population of 595. It is not to be confused with Pumsaint, a small village some distance away on the River Cothi. The population increased in 2011 to 734, and thus the percentage of Welsh speakers declined.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Llanpumsaint

2 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.

  1. 01
    Skanda Vale

    Skanda Vale is a non-denominational spiritual centre and monastery located in Carmarthenshire, Wales, near the village of Llanpumsaint. Founded in 1973 by Guru Sri Subramanium, the monastery is inhabited and run by the Community of the Many Names of God, which also runs Somaskanda Ashram in Switzerland.

    2.9 km · Hindu site in Carmarthenshire, Wales · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rhosydd Llanpumsaint

    Rhosydd Llanpumsaint is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

    1.7 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales · Wikipedia

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.

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Getting to Llanpumsaint

Airports
Cardiff (CWL), 89 km · Bristol (BRS), 126 km · Birmingham (BHX), 183 km
Stations
Llwyfan Cerrig railway station, 3.6 km
  • Cardiff → Llanpumsaint
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–15
  • Bristol → Llanpumsaint
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £16–22
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Llanpumsaint
    175 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · £24–32
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Llanpumsaint

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 Llanpumsaint. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inCharter company South Western Airlines operate out of Pembrey Airport.
  • Get inThe ferry ports at Pembroke Dock and Fishguart are approximately an hour away from Carmarthenshire, offering ferry services between south Wales and Ireland.

From Wikivoyage: Carmarthenshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    88 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    250 km
  3. 03
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    390 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    408 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    443 km

If you know how people move in Llanpumsaint – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Llanpumsaint

Llanpumsaint is 43 km from Swansea, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Alltwalisvillage in Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK3.6 km
  • Pontarsaishamlet in Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK2.4 km
  • Rhydargaeauvillage in Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK3.5 km