Millennium Coastal Park, Llanelli, Wales.
N 51° 40.406 W 004° 10.514
30U E 418735 N 5725371
Award winning Millennium Coastal Park, opened by The Queen in 2002, Extends over 20 Kilometres of coastline along the Loughor Estuary.
Waymark Code: WMCXEZ
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/22/2011
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The Park was created to celebrate the turn of the new millennium
The goal was to convert over 1,000 hectares of industrial dereliction into an eye-catching landscape that would compliment and enhance the natural beauty of the estuary itself.
The project was colossal, the results are phenomenal. Over 200 years of industrial abuse & dereliction, have been swept away and replaced by a parkland paradise.
The park attracts Hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, which makes it one of the most popular visitor destinations in the UK. Millennium Coastal Park occupies approximately 15 miles of coastline on the Loughor Estuary.
The park runs adjacent to the towns of Bynea, Llanelli, & Burry Port, & offers superb views along its length of the Loughor Estuary beaches, and the Gower Peninsula.
There are many entrances by foot & vehicle, the GPS, co-ordinates are for the Visitor & Discovery Centre car park.
At the heart of the Coastal Park stands the Iconic Discovery Centre, where visitors can find out about the leisure attractions of Carmarthenshire in one of the county’s most spectacular settings.
Overlooking Llanelli beach and offering panoramic views of the Loughor Estuary and the Gower Peninsula, the Discovery Centre is both the first port of call for visitors and an ideal stop-off point for people travelling through the Park.
The Millennium Coastal Park offers many unique features including a continuous traffic-free cycle/footpath, the National Wetlands Centre for Wales, and a championship links golf course. Burry Port and Pembrey harbour’s plus Millennium Quay and the Unique Discovery Centre.
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