page_title: Gelli Aur country park
hierarchical_section_title: Gelli Aur country park
caption_attribution_description: English: Peacock at Gelli Aur Country Park. Peacocks roam the freely with the visitors. You can also walk through a deer park as well.
context_page_description: Golden Grove locally known as Gelli Aur is a country park with 60 acres of wooded parkland surrounding Golden Grove mansion. It was once the home of the Vaughan and Cawdor families. The park featured a number of nature trails, a 20-acre deer park, a 10-acre Aboretum planted in the 1860s. The park was managed for many years by Carmarthenshire County Council. The Mansion features crow stepped gables, a battlemented portico and tall polygonal chimney stacks. The original Vaughan mansion, built between 1565 and 1570, no longer exists. In 1804 the last of the Vaughans died childless and the Gelli Aur estate passed to the Cawdor family. It was they who built the present mansion between 1827 and 1832. The mansion is now privately owned, and a long programme of restoration is underway.
  Since the middle of the 20th century, the house has had a checkered history. During World War Two, it housed American airmen. In more recent times, the big house was leased to Carmarthenshire County Council, and one of the five campuses of Carmarthenshire College was located there.
context_section_description: Golden Grove locally known as Gelli Aur is a country park with 60 acres (240,000 m²) of wooded parkland surrounding Golden Grove mansion. It was once the home of the Vaughan and Cawdor families. The park featured a number of nature trails, a 20-acre (81,000 m²) deer park, a 10-acre (40,000 m²) Aboretum planted in the 1860s. The park was managed for many years by Carmarthenshire County Council. The Mansion features crow stepped gables, a battlemented portico and tall polygonal chimney stacks. The original Vaughan mansion, built between 1565 and 1570, no longer exists. In 1804 the last of the Vaughans died childless and the Gelli Aur estate passed to the Cawdor family. It was they who built the present mansion between 1827 and 1832. The mansion is now privately owned, and a long programme of restoration is underway.
  Since the middle of the 20th century, the house has had a checkered history. During World War Two, it housed American airmen. In more recent times, the big house was leased to Carmarthenshire County Council, and one of the five campuses of Carmarthenshire College (Coleg Sir Gâr) was located there.
  In 2015, as part of a ten-year plan to restore the destination, a grant of close to £1 million was arranged with the Welsh Government. The first stage including enabling public access to the parkland and gardens with tea-rooms, a play area, educational activities and trails.  The match funding necessary for the third year phase of works did not materialise and therefore the majority of the grant could not be drawn down.
caption: The Park.
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