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Details of place: Newcastle Emlyn / Castell-newydd Emlyn

County: Carmarthen
OS Grid Ref: SN305405 = 52.0369324379, -4.47257180553
Type of place: Village
Notes: Newcastle Emlyn is in both Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire (the part in Ceredigion is called Adpar)
It is included here as, although it's not really in Ceredigion, it is just outside, and was very popular with drinkers from over the river.

As with all border towns, the pubs were popular on Sundays when Ceredigion was dry.
The 1888 25-inch shows the Salutation Inn, the Plough and ten P.H.s

1915 "P.S. Harries and P.C. W. Thomas stated that there were 17 public-houses within a radius of a mile, and the population of Newcastle-Emlyn Urban was 922, therefore there was a public-house for about every 55 persons"

Places associated with this place

includes: Adpar/
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Adpar Coffee Tavern , Lloyd Terrace, Adpar
Black Horse Inn , Adpar (exact location uncertain)
Coedmore Arms , Trefhedyn, Adpar
Drovers Arms , Adpar
Lamb Inn , Adpar
Nags Head , Adpar
Red Cow Inn , Adpar

Total: 7

part of: Carmarthenshire/