Aberystwyth Shopping, Business & Work

Aberystwyth Gas Company sign

Aberystwyth Electricity Deptartment sign

Utility, Monopoly & State

The following Utilities, monopolies and State Offices operate in Aberystwyth

Transport for Wales run the Trains to Aberystwyth
Network Rail own & maintain the track
Royalmail, collection, delivery, postoffice & parcelforce

NationalGrid distribution network for Gas, Electricity & Wireless Communications
British Gas Gas, Electricity, Phone
British Telecom BT Telephone.
Scotish Power Energy Networks Electricity
Welsh Water Water
Cwm Rheidol 56MW Hydroelectric Power Station owned by Statkraft
EMO Oil Depot

The BBC have an office in Aber
Ceredigion Business Centre, Business Connect, Businesseye, Flexible Support for Business, Business Wales
Aberystwyth Magistrates Court
Aberystwyth County Court
Job Centre
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Jobs

Job Centre's database of local jobs, plus the recruitment pages of the area's larger employers

Local Commerce

Aber Loos
Aberystwyth Removals & Storage Ltd
Alan's Alterations Sewing and tailoring alternations service
Alison Jones Schoolware
arbcore Tree Surgery company
Boost Your French through work placement in France
Catalina Architecture Ltd
Davies & Lewis Chartered Certified Accountants
Out towards Llanbadarn is D.W. Bates Precision Engineering
R.J. Edwards Agricultural Contractor / Haulier
Mid Wales Paragliding Centre
Smartdata a database development company
StoreEasy Secure self-access storage
Tropical Forest Speciality honey suppliers
Ty Loveden House Serviced offices suites
Just a few km south of Aber' are Ty Nant Spring Water the premier brand bottled water in the pretty blue bottles

Publishing

Honno The Welsh Women's Press
Planet Magazine Welsh International Culture
new welsh review literary criticism fiction poetry reviews theatre
The Welsh language publisher and printers Y Lolfa is based in Talybont - just a few km north of Aber'

Retail Shopping

Cerdd Ystwyth Music Music shop
Clynderwen & Cardiganshire Farmers Ltd Farmers Coop
The Furniture Cave Antiques and furniture
No 21 Flowers
Robins Nest Comics
Siop Ffoto Photographic services & accessories
Stars packed with gifts, souvenirs and partyware
Summit Cycles
Ty Coed Treehouse Organic food & ethical household consumables
VR Land (Room-scale virtual reality experiences & games)

The Industrial Estate (Glanyrafon, Glan Yr Afon)

Afan Electrical Ltd
Bearing Man Limited
Camsport Performance car parts
C.B. Environmental Ltd
City Electrical Factors
Jewson
Rachel's Organic the premier dairy produce brand (used to be called Rachel's Dairy)
If you live in Aber' and receive a packet then you have to treck out here to collect it from the Royal Mail Delivery Office or you could arrange redleivery on-line or by phone 01970 632600
Screwfix
S.R.M. Engineering
Computer games developer West Coast Software Ltd
Yodel

The "Science" Park

Aber Instruments produce devices that tell you how many bugs (yeast) have grown in a vat.

AberInnovation - Gogerddan Campus

Agxio

Aberystwyth Pier — Aberystwyth Pier - Pointing North West

Aber' Factoids

Why is the place called Aber-ystwyth (mouth of the river Ystwyth) when it's on the mouth of the Rheidol?: The town used to be called Llanbadarn Gaerog (Fortified Llanbadarn) but some time in the middle ages it got mistaken for the much earlier (& even at this time, long since demolished) castle built on the other side of Pendinas, which was at the mouth of the river Ystwyth.
Pier points NorthWest not West
No, you can't see Ireland from Aber: No, not even on a clear day!; Curvature of the earth and all that; (Those 'islands' on the horizon are the tops of the hills of North Wales)
Yes, you can see Snowdon from Aber: you need to be on the prom near the pier or in the castle grounds or better still on top of Consti' and it's almost exactly North; oh yes, and it needs to be a clear day.
There is only 30° of open sea at Aberystwyth: The other 150° lead across Cardigan Bay then back to Welsh land
Dawn, noon, sunset and the like all happen 16 minutes later than in London: resulting from Aber being about 4° to the west of Greenwich
(Aber Local Mean Time = GMT - 16 minutes)
No, the 14inch Camera Obscura isn't the largest in the world: There's a 40inch Camera Obscura at Discovery Park
No, the 237m cliff railway is not the longest funicular railway in the UK: The CairnGorm Mountain Funicular Railway is 1950m long.; Aberystwyth Cliff railway is the longest of the funicular railways that go up the side of a cliff in the UK
Yes, it does snow in Aber: just not very often
Aber's driest month is not in summer: It's April
The trees lining either side of North Parade are 'Whitebeam'
Aber isn't in the county of Dyfed: Dyfed has not existed since 1996, it's in Ceredigion; don't care what your computerized Postcode2address program tells you, - the county of Dyfed has not existed for over 2 decades.
Abermad: is not the term for what happens to you soon after you take up residence, but the name of an old mansion house about 8km to the south.
Aber' is the largest town in Ceredigion: It's more then 3 times larger than the 2nd largest: Cardigan
Ceredigion County Council isn't based in Aber: It's based in Aberaron (which, although it is more than 10 times smaller than Aber, is more central in the county), but they do have some offices in Aber

Aber' isn't the oldest university in Wales

Lampeter got its charter over 50 years earlier

Aber is the oldest of the founding members of the University of Wales

they didn't let Lampeter join for over 70 years

The mosaic on southern corner of the old college represents Archimedies receiving emblems of modern science and industry

Prince Charles did not study for his degree in Aber

(that was Cambridge) but he spent the summer term of 1969 learning some Welsh here before his investiture as Prince of Wales

You can no longer get a degree from Aber' in

Chemistry
Geology
Electronics
Philosophy
Italian
Russian
Portuguese
Greek
Music . . . . . . . .

All these departments have either been closed down or reduced to non degree awarding status

The Uni' is down to 17 academic departments.

No, there aren't secret tunnels running from the National Library running under town.: There's a hollowed out short tunnel below the National Library that does not even reach the National Library
Aber is the town with the highest ratio of books to people in the World: most being locked away in the National Library
No, there weren't riots when Roberts Brewery stopped production in the 1960's
Ceredigion is more than self sufficient in renewable electricity. It produces 3 times more than it uses
Are there any more?: There's an Aberystwyth, in the south of the Canterbury region of New Zealand; There's a turquoise glacial lake named Aberystwyth Lake in East Kootenay British Columbia, Canada; There's an Aberystwyth Place in Binghamton, New York, USA
What's on the Other Side?: A lot of water = South Atlantic Ocean; The closet piece of land (about 300km away) to the opposite side of the earth from Aber is Bouvetøya an tiny, uninhabited, Norwegian, volcanic island. Being 1700km from any other land it's the most remote island in the world.

National Highstreet Chains that operate in Aberystwyth

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Aber IT Sector

Needless to say this is dominated by the University's Computer Science Department and Information Services Department. There are also strong computational groups in several other of the science departments.

There are also several university spin-off companies that are Technology based

Aber Instruments produce devices that tell you how many bugs (yeast) have grown in a vat.
Smartdata a database development company

Computer games developer West Coast Software

British Computer: Society Mid-Wales Sub-Branch