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Whitland

This small market town and centre of the dairy industry is historically important as the meeting place of the assembly convened by Hywel Dda in the 10th century. Born towards the end of the 9th century, Dda made a pilgrimage to Rome in AD928 and, some 14 years later, he was ruler of most of Wales. Summoning representatives from each part of Wales to Whitland, Dda laid down a legal system that became known for its wisdom and justice, and which remained in force in Wales up until the Act of Union with England in 1536. This system and its instigator are remembered at the Prince of Wales Design award-winning building, the Hywel Dda Centre. Here, too, is a memorial in the form of six gardens representing the six separate divisions of the law: Society and Status; Crime and Tort; Women; Contract; the King; and Property.

Just north of the town stand the remains of the once great Whitland Abbey, which was founded in 1140 by Bernard, the first Norman Bishop of St David’s. It moved to its present position in 1151 and at one time was the premier Cistercian house in Wales.