Village in Carmarthenshire, Wales

Pontyates

Pontyates is a village straddling two communities, situated in the Gwendraeth Valley half way between Carmarthen and Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, West Wales.

Plan a trip to Pontyates→From Cardiff

Every way there

Cardiff → Pontyates
78 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–11
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Bristol → Pontyates
117 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £14–19
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Pontyates
178 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · £22–29
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Pontyates, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Pontyates has

YScheduled flightsCardiff (CWL), 72 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesFerryside, 11 km, Carmarthen Bay Ferries; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Swansea, 24 km.

51.752°, -4.217°

How locals move

Getting around Pontyates 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, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.