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Pontamman Road, AMMANFORD, SA18 2JD

The Red Kite pub in Pontaman.

Looking upstream from the north bank of the River Amman two divergent streams can be seen rejoining each other around the tip of an island in the middle of the river.

This is the back garden of a house near Ammanford, lit entirely by moonlight and some ambient street light. The house is crowned by the "Plough" constellation. Note the second top star of the pan-handle. Even at this resolution, you can clearly see two stars in the picture - Alcor and Mizar, one of the few binary star systems visible to the human eye, used as an ancient eye test - you had good vision if you could see both with the naked eye.

A new cycle path is under construction which will extend an existing cycle route (National Route 437) that runs up the Amman Valley with Ammanford.

Cerddwyr yn dilyn trac seiclo o Lanaman at Bontaman. Walkers following a cycle track from Glanaman (trans. Aman riverside) to Pontaman (Aman bridge)

A phenomenon seen when fine ice crystals in the upper atmosphere refracts the sun's rays. A halo (parhelic circle) forms at 22º around the sun when it's close to the horizon on crisp evenings (just visible in this photograph) and two "mock suns" appear on either side of the sun at 90º and 270º, often being seen as two tiny rainbows. The sun in this picture is way overexposed causing it to seem bloated (and actually damaged the camera's CCD while taking this picture!)

Hopkinstown or Trehopcyn in Welsh.

For a number of years, a "cycle path", part of the SUSTRANS network has existed between Ammanford and Garnant that had no start or destination - you could only access it via a narrow suspension bridge over the river Amman.Image Work has since been done to extend this path up the Amman Valley but for a while it stopped about 1 kilometre short of Ammanford. Now, work is underway to complete the rest of this path. This is listed as National Route 437 and will shortly start from just west of Pontamman bridge to Glanamman with a view to eventually extending the route all the way to Brynamman. Planning documents also suggest that this work is also being carried out to re-route existing public rights of way routes away from nearby farm buildings by providing new clearly defined paths that replace the ill defined (and in some cases almost impassable) current routes.