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Burry Port
Port town and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales

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.

Plan a trip to Burry Port→From Cardiff

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.

Get in

Getting to Burry Port

Regular trains and buses in both directions from Llanelli and Carmarthen.

  1. 01
    Pembrey Airport

    A small airport with a few charter flights.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Burry Port Lighthouse

    Built in the 1830s, restored 1996.

Do

Things to do

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    Ashburnham Golf Course

    Cliff Terrace (in the west of Burry Port),.

  2. 02
    Cefn Sidan

    Pembrey Country Park.

  3. 03
    Pembrey Country Park

    Contains a training slope and a 120m main slope.

  4. 04
    Pembrey Airport

    Local leisure flights and chartered flights to UK and Europe.

  5. 05
    Pembrey Circuit
Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Laurians Fish Bar

    A fish bar that is regularly voted as one of the top 100 chip shops in the UK.

How locals move

Getting around Burry Port the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Germany (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.