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Llanelli
; ) is a market town and community (Wales), community in Carmarthenshire and the Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county of Dyfed, Wales. It is on the estuary of the River Loughor and is the largest town in the Principal areas of Wales, county of Carmarthenshire. The town is north-west of Swansea and south-east of Carmarthen. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census the community had a population of 25,366, and the built up area had a population of 42,155. The local authority was Llanelli Borough Council when the county of Dyfed existed, and it has been under Carmarthenshire County Council since 1996. Name Spelling The anglicised spelling “Llanelly” was used until 1966, when it was changed to Llanelli after a local public campaign. It remains in the name of a local historic building, Llanelly House, and this is sometimes confused with the village and parish of Llanelly, in south-east Wales near Abergavenny. Llanelly in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmarthenshire County Council
Carmarthenshire County Council ( or ''Cyngor Sir Gaerfyrddin'') is the local authority for the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales. It provides a range of services including education, planning, transport, social services and public safety. The council is one of twenty-two unitary authorities that came into existence on 1 April 1996 under the provisions of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994. It took over local government functions previously provided by the three district councils of District of Carmarthen, Carmarthen, Dinefwr Borough Council, Dinefwr, and District of Llanelli, Llanelli, as well as the county-level services in the area from Dyfed County Council, all of which councils were abolished at the same time. The council is based at County Hall, Carmarthen, County Hall in Carmarthen. History There have been two bodies called Carmarthenshire County Council. The first existed from 1889 until 1974, and the current one was created in 1996. Elected county councils were crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanelli (UK Parliament Constituency)
Llanelli is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. From 1918 to 1970 the official spelling of the constituency name was Llanelly. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It has been represented since 2005 by Nia Griffith of the Labour Party. The Llanelli Senedd constituency was created with the same boundaries in 1999 (as an Assembly constituency). The constituency retained its name and gained wards, as part of the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies and under the June 2023 final recommendations of the Boundary Commission for Wales for the 2024 general election. Boundaries 1918–1950: The constituency was established in 1918, as a division of Carmarthenshire, located in the south east of the county. This area had, until 1918, been the southern part of the constituency of East Carmarthenshire. It consisted of the then local authority areas of the Municipal Borough of Llan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanelli Borough Council
The Borough of Llanelli was one of six local government districts of the county of Dyfed, Wales from 1974 to 1996. History The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering the area of four former districts from the administrative county of Carmarthenshire, which were abolished at the same time: * Burry Port Urban District *Kidwelly Municipal Borough * Llanelli Municipal Borough * Llanelli Rural District The district was the smallest by area of six districts in the newly created county of Dyfed. The district held borough status, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. The borough of Llanelli was abolished 22 years later under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, with the area becoming part of the new Carmarthenshire unitary authority on 1 April 1996. Political control The first election to the council was held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority before coming into its powers on 1 April 1974. Througho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire (; or informally ') is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre. The county is known as the "Garden of Wales" and is also home to the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Carmarthenshire has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The county town was founded by the Romans, and the region was part of the Kingdom of Deheubarth in the High Middle Ages. After invasion by the Normans in the 12th and 13th centuries it was Conquest of Wales by Edward I, subjugated, along with other parts of Wales, by Edward I of England. There was further unrest in the early 15th century, when the Welsh rebelled under Owain Glyndŵr, and during the English Civil War. Carmarthenshire is mainly an agricultural county, apart from the southeastern part which was once heavily industrialised with coal mining, steel-making and tin-pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanelli (National Assembly For Wales Constituency)
Llanelli is a United Kingdom constituencies, constituency of the Senedd. It elects one Member of the Senedd by the first past the post method of election. Also, however, it is one of eight constituencies in the Mid and West Wales (Senedd electoral region), Mid and West Wales Senedd constituencies and electoral regions, electoral region, which elects four additional member system, additional members, in addition to eight constituency members, to produce a degree of proportional representation for the region as a whole. Boundaries 1999 to 2007 The constituency was created for the 1999 National Assembly for Wales election, first election to the Assembly, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of the Llanelli (UK Parliament constituency), Llanelli Westminster constituency. It is a Dyfed constituencies, Dyfed constituency, one of five constituencies covering, and entirely within, the Preserved counties of Wales, preserved county of Dyfed. The other four Dyfed constituencies are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanelli Town Hall
Llanelli Town Hall () is a municipal building in Church Street, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, South Wales. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Llanelli Borough Council and now serves as a Register office (United Kingdom), register office, is a Grade II listed building. History In the 18th century the portreeve and Burgess (title), burgesses of Llanelli met in the Falcon Inn in Thomas Street. The first purpose-built town hall in Llanelli, which was designed with arcading on the ground floor to allow markets to be held and with an assembly room on the first floor, was erected in Hall Street in 1827. The borough council, which had ceased to meet, was abolished under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883. However, the local board of health, which had been established in 1850, decided in the early 1890s to procure a new town hall: the site they selected was open land to the west of Church Street. Following significant population growth, largely associated with the coal mining and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanelly House
Llanelly House (also spelled Llanelli House) is one of the most notable historic properties in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales—an excellent example of an early-18th-century Georgian architecture, Georgian town house. It had been described as "the most outstanding domestic building of its early Georgian type to survive in South Wales." The then Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire (UK Parliament constituency), Carmarthenshire, Sir Thomas Stepney, 5th Baronet, of the Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire Stepney family, originally built the house in 1714. John Wesley, the early leader of the Methodist movement, stayed at the house several times during his visits to the town. The house, located directly opposite the St Ellyw's Church, Llanelli, parish church of St Ellyw, was in a poor state of repair; however, the Llanelli Town Council, town council purchased it from the local business community with the intention of completely restoring the House for civic and public use. Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Elli Church, Llanelli
St Elli Church, also called St Ellyw's Church is an Anglican parish church in the town of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, dedicated to Saint Elli. It was built in the medieval period, possibly in the 15th century, and is located in Bridge Street, opposite Llanelly House. It was designated a Grade II*-listed building on 30 November 1964. History The church was a parish church in medieval times, being first mentioned in eleventh century documents. In the thirteenth century the living was in the gift of the Lord of Kidwelly, Patrick de Chatworth, but with his death the patronage passed to the Crown. In the late fourteenth century John of Gaunt was entitled to receive the tithes at the collegiate church of St Mary, Leicester. There were four subordinate chapels in the parish before the Protestant Reformation. The building The church dates back to the medieval period, possibly the fifteenth century. The west tower is the oldest part of the building, the rest having been added ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afon Lliedi
The River Lliedi () has its source near Mynydd Sylen Llanelli and Llannon in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The river fills the Cwm-Lliedi Reservoirs and meets the sea at the Loughor Estuary (Welsh-Moryd Llwchwr) at the former Carmarthenshire Dock (Porth Sir Gaerfyrddin), Llanelli. The river's tidal course near Llanelli has been altered several times over the last 200 years to build docks to serve the large tinplate and coal mining Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground or from a mine. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to Electricity generation, generate electr ... industries of the town. Before the North Dock (Porth y Gogledd) was built it flowed through Pownd yr Hen Gastell at the bottom of Old Castle Road and out to the north-west of Llanelli Beach. ReferencesIndustrial History of South Llanelli External links Llanelli Lliedi {{Wales-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Elli
Saint Elli was a 6th-century Welsh saint, or possibly two saints. Llanelli in Carmarthenshire and Llanelly in Monmouthshire are both named after Elli. There are traditions about a male saint Elli and a female saint Elli, and there are depictions of a male and of a female saint. According to one legend, Elli or Ellyw was a daughter or granddaughter of Brychan, King Brychan. Elli founded a church on the banks of the River Lliedi, which attracted peasants who settled nearby. This community became the town of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire. A different account is given in the 11th century ''Vita Cadoci'' (life of Cadoc), which says that Elli was the son of the Queen of the Islands of Grimbul, and the foster son of Saint Cadoc. When travelling in foreign lands, Cadoc landed on the islands of Grimbul. Grimbul's queen was barren, but after Cadoc interceded for her she bore a son, Elli, who she entrusted to the care of Cadoc. Cadoc took Elli to the ''Clas (ecclesiastical settlement), clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swansea
Swansea ( ; ) is a coastal City status in the United Kingdom, city and the List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, second-largest city of Wales. It forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (). The city is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, twenty-eighth largest in the United Kingdom. Located along Swansea Bay in south-west Wales, with the principal area covering the Gower Peninsula, it is part of the Swansea Bay (region), Swansea Bay region and part of the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Glamorgan and the ancient Welsh commote of Gŵyr. The principal area is the second most List of Welsh principal areas by population, populous local authority area in Wales, with an estimated population of in . Swansea, along with Neath and Port Talbot, forms the Swansea urban area, with a population of 300,352 in 2011. It is also part of the Swansea Bay City Region. During the 19th-century industrial heyday, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Loughor
The River Loughor () () is a river in Wales which marks the border between Carmarthenshire Carmarthenshire (; or informally ') is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre. ... and Swansea. The river is sourced from an underground lake at the Black Mountain (range), Black Mountain emerging at the surface from which translates from the Welsh as "eye of the Loughor". It flows past Ammanford and Hendy in Carmarthenshire and in Swansea. The river divides Carmarthenshire from Swansea for much of its course and it separates Hendy from Pontarddulais at the point where the river becomes tidal. The Loughor meets the sea at its estuary near the town of Loughor where it separates the south coast of Carmarthenshire from the north coast of the Gower Peninsula. Among its tributaries is the River Amman and the Afon Morlais, River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
