Dylan Thomas visited New Quay frequently, and lived here in 1944/1945. This was one the most prolific periods of his writing career, not least because he enjoyed being so close to the sea, with good pubs to hand The Dylan Thomas New Quay Trail takes you through some of the places in the town associated with Dylan and with his most famous work, Under Milk Wood. The beautiful countryside of Ceredigion was in Dylan's blood - his great uncle, Gwilym Marles, had been a Unitarian minister in the county, and a poet of some distinction as well Left: a reconstruction of Majoda , Thomas' home in New Quay for the film 'The Edge of Love'.

When Dylan was sixteen, he stayed on a farm just outside Cardigan. During the 1930's he came to visit his aunt and cousin in New Quay, and called on the writer Caradoc Evans in Aberystwyth.


For much of the war he led a nomadic life, staying in a mansion at Tal-sarn, a hotel at Lampeter, a cottage in Talgarreg, and a bungalow in New Quay (where the famed attempted shooting took place).

Dylan Loved New Quay, and it provided the inspiration for several of his best works. He and Caitlin lived in Majoda, on the outskirts of the town. Dylan’s time there was amongst the most productive of his life, "a second flowering, a period of fertility that recalls the earliest days". There was a "great out pouring" of poems, as well as film and radio scripts.