Brechfa Forest

The Brechfa Forest is an area of forest in Carmarthenshire, south Wales.

Much of the planting took place during the 1930s, with work carried out by young unemployed men from a Ministry of Labour work camp. Many came from the distressed coal mining communities, and were recruited for training in one of a number of Instructional Centres created by the Ministry, most of which were on Forestry Commission property; by 1938, the Ministry had 38 Instructional Centres across Britain. The hutted camp in Brechfa was later used to house Basque children who were refugees from the Spanish Civil War.

External links

• Forestry Commission: Brechfa Forest
• Brechfa Village. Provides information and history relating to the South West Wales village of Brechfa and the local area. Information is also given on people for whom Brechfa has been the birthplace of, home to, or a place to stay a while.
• South Western Region of the Cambrian Mountains. Provides information on how the communities encircling Brechfa Forest are being supported by the Welsh Government to develop the local economy linked to developing Brechfa Forest as a tourist attraction.

Reference Field, J. Learning Through Labour: Training, unemployment and the state, 1890-1939, University of Leeds, 1992, ISBN 0-900-960-48-5