The River Teifi
Canoeists love this river, especially the stretch at Llandysul where there’s a challenging slalom white-water course; it’s because of the way the river wriggles and winds in a narrow valley.
The entrancing Teifi is renowned for its salmon and sewin, with the waters yielding up to 36lbs of fish, but it is captivating also because of the beauty, variety and history it offers.
The river was quite literally the driving force of the Welsh woollen industry. Its sparkling waters were used to wash the wool and drive the waterwheels that powered the many mills along the riverbanks. A handful still remain, producing a distinctively patterned cloth for which Wales is famous.
The best place in which to delve into the Teifi’s textile legacy is at the National Woollen Museum at Drefach Felindre.
The incredibly picturesque Cenarth Falls was one of Wales’s first tourist attractions. Discovered by the Victorians, it is still one of the few places where you can see coracles at work. These tiny, one-man fishing craft resembling an upturned umbrella have been used in South-West Wales since Roman times.
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