Llywernog () is a hamlet in the
community
A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...
of
Blaenrheidol,
Ceredigion
Ceredigion (), historically Cardiganshire (, ), is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the West Wales, west of Wales. It borders Gwynedd across the River Dyfi, Dyfi estuary to the north, Powys to the east, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire t ...
, Wales. Llywernog is represented in the
Senedd
The Senedd ( ; ), officially known as the Welsh Parliament in English and () in Welsh, is the devolved, unicameral legislature of Wales. A democratically elected body, Its role is to scrutinise the Welsh Government and legislate on devolve ...
by
Elin Jones
Elin Jones (born 1 September 1966), is a Welsh politician who has served as the Llywydd of the Senedd since 2016. A member of Plaid Cymru, Jones has been the Member of the Senedd (MS) for Ceredigion since 1999.
Background
Jones atten ...
(
Plaid Cymru
Plaid Cymru ( ; , ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left, Welsh nationalist list of political parties in Wales, political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from th ...
) and the Member of Parliament is
Ben Lake
Ben Morgan Lake (born 22 January 1993) is a Plaid Cymru politician who became the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ceredigion Preseli, formerly Ceredigion, in 2017.
Background
Lake was born in Carmarthen and brought up in Lampeter. He is the so ...
(Plaid Cymru).
Llywernog is home to
Llywernog Mine
Llywernog Mine is an 18th-century silver-lead Mining, mine in Llywernog, Ceredigion, Wales, currently run as an industrial heritage museum and tourist attraction. Exploiting the mineralised rocks of the Central Wales Orefield, it is one of many ...
, an 18th-century silver-lead mine.
See also
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Metal mining in Wales
Mining in Wales provided a significant source of income to the economy of Wales throughout the nineteenth century and early to mid twentieth century. It was key to the Industrial Revolution in Wales, and to the whole of Great Britain.
Wales was f ...
*
List of localities in Wales by population
The following is a list of built-up areas in Wales by population according to the 2021 and 2011 Census. 2021
This is a list of built-up areas as of the 2021 census.Within the dataset under 1d. Over 10,000
Under 10,000
2011
See also
*List of ...
References
Villages in Ceredigion
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