Penceilogi (standard or historically ) is a small village on the northern outskirts of

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, ...

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. ...

, Wales. It is bordered by Bryn to the east, Dafen to the north-west, Pemberton to the west and Cwmcarnhywel to the south. Administratively it lies within the community of

Llanelli Rural Llanelli Rural () is a community in the southeast of Carmarthenshire, Wales. Description Despite its name, Llanelli Rural covers large parts of the Llanelli urban area, including Bynea, Llwynhendy, Cefncaeau, Pemberton, Bryn, Cwmcarnhywel ...

and occupies the spur between the Dafen and Cwm Carnhywel valleys, its streets stepping up from about 40 m to 90 m above sea level on the flanks of Bryn hill. The built-up area merges westwards into Pemberton and eastwards into Bryn, while minor lanes give south-facing views towards the

Burry Inlet The River Loughor () () is a river in Wales which marks the border between Carmarthenshire and Swansea. The river is sourced from an underground lake at the Black Mountain emerging at the surface from which translates from the Welsh as "eye of ...

. Llanelli Rural as a whole recorded 23,058 residents at the 2021 census, making it the most populous rural community in Wales and the largest population cluster outside the town's historic borough limits. The modern settlement is almost entirely twentieth- and twenty-first-century housing. Early expansion came with inter-war council cottages on Gors Fach and Bryncoch Road, but the decisive change was the post-2000 allocation of several large green-field sites in the county's Local Development Plan. A 14.5-acre parcel at Llys y Bryn (site GA2/h56) was reserved for up to 145 dwellings, while the adjacent plateau at Y Waun secured outline permission in 2013 for 26 bungalows and, in 2021, for a mixed scheme of up to 202 homes with landscaped open space and sustainable-drainage features. The council's 2024 evidence to the revised LDP notes that the Y Waun project will be accessed off Nant-y-Gro, is within walking distance of frequent bus routes 110/111 to

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 ...

and Llanelli town centre, and is expected to deliver the policy requirement of twenty-five per cent affordable units. Local services remain limited. Primary education is provided a little under 1 km east at Bryn C.P. School on Gelli Road; an Estyn monitoring visit in October 2021 judged the school to have made "sufficient progress" and removed it from special-measures status. Small convenience shops cluster on the Bryn–Penceilogi ridge, but most residents rely on the retail park and railway station at

Bynea Bynea ( ;G.M. Miller, ''BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names'' (Oxford UP, 1971), p. 23. ; sometimes ) is a village close to the River Loughor () in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It also forms an Bynea (electoral ward), electoral ward for the ...

or the shopping streets of central Llanelli 3 km to the south-west. Footpaths and cycle routes link the estate roads to the wooded valley of Nant Cwm-y-Glo, now designated informal open space within the wider Cwm y Nant strategic growth zone.

References

{{Reflist, refs= {{cite web , title=Llanelli Rural Community: population statistics , url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/wales/admin/carmarthenshire/W04000988__llanelli_rural/ , website=CityPopulation.de , publisher=Office for National Statistics , date=2024 , access-date=30 April 2025 {{cite web , title=Statement of Evidence: Cwm y Nant, Dafen, Llanelli , url=https://www.carmarthenshire.gov.wales/media/rgrnjtem/final-statement-of-evidence-cwm-y-nant-english.pdf , publisher=Carmarthenshire County Council , date=16 May 2024 , access-date=30 April 2025 {{cite web , title=Carmarthenshire Local Development Plan – housing allocations table (site GA2/h56) , url=https://www.cartogold.co.uk/carmarthenshireldp/welsh/text/06_Polisiau-Penodol.htm , publisher=Carmarthenshire County Council , date=June 2014 , language=cy , trans-title=Specific policies , access-date=30 April 2025 {{cite web , title=Monitoring report – Bryn C.P. School , url=https://estyn.gov.wales/app/uploads/2021/10/Monitoring-report-Bryn-C.P-School-2021.pdf , publisher=Estyn , date=October 2021 , access-date=30 April 2025 Llanelli Rural