Coordinates: 51°49′19″N 3°49′52″W / 51.822°N 3.831°W / 51.822; -3.831 Quarter Bach is a community located in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
It is at the foot of the Black Mountain, in the far east of the county. The main settlement here is Upper Brynamman, though it also includes Ystradowen and the other areas to the south east which happen to be part of Carmarthenshire, as well as a substantial amount of open moorland.
According to the 2001 Census, 75.2% of people in Quarter Bach can speak Welsh, the highest percentage of any ward in Carmarthenshire and indeed in the southern half of Wales.
Famous quotes containing the words quarter and/or bach:
“I have started to say
“A quarter of a century”
Or “thirty years back”
About my own life.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”
—Lewis Thomas (b. 1913)