Cardiganshire
Created | Updated Jul 26, 2002
Known in Welsh as Ceredigion or Sir Aberteifi.
Area 440,630 acres. Population 64,000. The Cambrian Mountains cover much of the east of the County. In the south and west the surface is less elevated. The highest point is Plynlimmon at 2,486 feet at which five rivers have their source: the Severn, the Wye, the Dulas, the Llyfnant and Rheidol, the last of which meets the Mynach in a 300-foot plunge at the Devil's Bridge chasm. The 50 miles of coastline has many sandy beaches. Tourism and agriculture, chiefly hill farming, are the most important industries.
Motto
Golud gwlad rhyddid (The wealth of the land is freedom)
Major towns
- Cardigan (county town)
- Aberaeron
- Aberystwyth
- Lampeter
- New Quay
- Newcastle Emlyn (partly in Carmarthenshire)
- Tregaron
Major rivers
- The chief river is the Teifi which forms the border with Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire for much of its length.
Adjacent counties
- North: Merionethshire
- East: Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Brecknockshire
- South: Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire
