Bethlehem, Carmarthenshire

Bethlehem is a tiny farming village in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying in the Tywi Valley northeast of Llandeilo and southwest of Llangadog but on the opposite side of the river from the busy London to Haverfordwest road, the A40.

The Nonconformist chapel after which the village was named is on a side road that follows the western edge of the Brecon Beacons.

Bethlehem is overlooked by Carn Goch, a significant Iron Age hillfort with great heaps of stones remaining from the original ramparts.

The alternative Rock band Strangelove lived in a house just outside the village of Bethlehem through much of 1996 and wrote all of their third and final album there.

[1] A major attraction is to post Christmas cards from the village to get a Bethlehem postmark,[2] a practice that first gained national attention in about 1965.