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==Landmarks== [[File: Town Hall and Clock Tower, Laugharne (geograph 3750176 by Colin Park).jpg|thumb|[[Laugharne Town Hall]]]] [[Image:castle house.JPG|thumb|Castle House, Laugharne]] [[File:Great House, Laugharne.jpg|thumb|The Great House, Laugharne]] [[File:Wogan Street, Laugharne, circa 1880.jpg|thumb|Wogan Street {{circa|1880}}]] [[File:British Library digitised image from page 159 of "The Antiquities of Langharne and Pendine, Carmarthenshire, S. Wales, with some notice of their neighbourhoods, and illustrations" (cropped).jpg|thumb|Island House in 1856]] Local attractions include the 12th-century [[Laugharne Castle]], [[Laugharne Town Hall]] and the estuary [[birdlife]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.visitwales.com/attraction-search/attraction-search-results/attraction-search-details?id=517482&industry=TEA&location=Laugharne%2c+Carmarthenshire&radius=10&filterIds=&city=&price=&latitude=51.77275&longitude=-4.455275&ref=7F85DBD03BC743B6A2427E6E3C4E3F36|title=Laugharne Castle|website=Visit Wales|publisher=The Welsh Government|access-date=March 22, 2016}}</ref> Laugharne Township currently has 69 listed buildings and contains several fine examples of [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] [[townhouses]] including [[Great House (Laugharne)|The Great House]] and [[Castle House, Laugharne|Castle House]] together with [[Island House (Laugharne)|Island House]], parts of which date back to the Tudor period. All three properties are grade II* listed and a number of other early [[Vernacular architecture|vernacular]] [[cottage]]s have also survived.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wales/laugharne-township-carmarthenshire |title= Listed Buildings in Laugharne Township, Carmarthenshire, Wales|publisher= British Listed Buildings|access-date = 29 July 2020}}</ref> There are a number of landmarks in Laugharne connected with the poet and writer Dylan Thomas. These include the [[Dylan Thomas Boathouse]], where he lived with his family from 1949 to 1953, and now a museum; his writing shed; and the Dylan Thomas Birthday Walk, which was the setting for the work ''Poem in October''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.visitwales.com/explore/literature/laugharne-famous-attractions|title=Dylan Thomas' Laugharne|website=Visit Wales|publisher=The Welsh Government|access-date=March 22, 2016}}</ref>
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