Pwll

Pwll
Pwll
	A view of Pwll
	Pwll Location within Carmarthenshire
OS grid reference	SN473010
Community	Llanelli Rural;
Principal area	Carmarthenshire;
Preserved county	Dyfed;
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LLANELLI
Postcode district	SA15
Dialling code	01554
Police	Dyfed-Powys
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Llanelli;
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Llanelli;
	List of places UK Wales Carmarthenshire 51°41′15″N 4°12′33″W / 51.687589°N 4.209093°W

Pwll is a small coastal village, located between Llanelli and Burry Port. It has a local shop, pet shop, Post Office located in The Blue Anchor (Wednesday's and Friday's 12 until 3), a few pubs, a primary school and local football teams senior and junior and previously cricket until the team folded. The village is concentrated along the north of the A484. The land rises away from the coast providing a view of the Gower Peninsula (Penrhyn Gŵyr).

Aviation history

On June 17, 1928 pioneering aviatrix Amelia Earhart landed near the village in a Fokker F.VIIb/3m after flying exactly 20 hours and 40 minutes non-stop from Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland. She became the first woman to fly non-stop across the Atlantic. A commemorative blue plaque now marks the site.^[1] As most of the flight was on instruments and Earhart because had no training for this type of flying, she did not pilot the aircraft. When interviewed after landing, she said, "Stultz did all the flying—had to. I was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes." She added, "... maybe someday I'll try it alone."^[2] In 1932 she completed her solo Transatlantic solo flight.

Citations

^ Dorrell, Richard. "Amelia Earhart memorial, Pwll." Archived November 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine geograph.org.uk, July 4, 2013. Retrieved: July 9, 2017.
^ Goldstein, Donald M.; Dillon, Katherine V. (1997). Amelia: The Centennial Biography of an Aviation Pioneer. Brassey's. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-57488-134-9. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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[1] Dorrell, Richard. "Amelia Earhart memorial, Pwll." Archived November 2, 2017, at the Wayback Machine geograph.org.uk, July 4, 2013. Retrieved: July 9, 2017.

[2] Goldstein, Donald M.; Dillon, Katherine V. (1997). Amelia: The Centennial Biography of an Aviation Pioneer. Brassey's. p. 54. ISBN 978-1-57488-134-9. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

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