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Blaenycoed, or Blaen-y-coed is a village situated between
Blaenycoed, or Blaen-y-coed is a village situated between Carmarthen
Carmarthen (, ; , 'Merlin's fort' or possibly 'Sea-town fort') is the county town of Carmarthenshire and a community (Wales), community in Wales, lying on the River Towy north of its estuary in Carmarthen Bay. At the 2021 United Kingdom cen ...
and Newcastle Emlyn
Newcastle Emlyn () is a town and Community (Wales), community on the River Teifi, in West Wales. The community is wholly in Carmarthenshire, but the built up area also includes Adpar north of the Teifi, which is in Ceredigion. Adpar was formerl ...
, Wales
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, of 17 houses, a Welsh Independents chapel, a postbox and small farms. ''Blaen-y-coed'' literally translates to mean "Head-of-the-wood.". Woodland Rise is a camping and caravanning site in the village.
Notable people
Howell Elvet Lewis
Howell Elvet Lewis (14 April 1860 – 10 December 1953), widely known by his bardic name Elfed, was a Welsh Congregational minister, hymn-writer, and devotional poet, who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1924 to 192 ...
, the Independent minister, hymn-writer, poet, known as Elfed, was born in 1860. The house where he was born, ''Y Gangell'', is near Blaenycoed and contains a small exhibition of his life. His ashes were also scattered in Blaenycoed chapel graveyard.
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