Cross Hands
Cross Hands is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales, approximately 12 miles from Carmarthen. Cross Hands is notable for its Public Hall, erected in 1920 and designed by an unknown Italian designer in the classic Art Deco Style.Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cross Hands Public Hall & Cinema and Ysgol Maes Y Gwendraeth.
Cross Hands Public Hall & Cinema
Movie theater
Photo: Alan Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cross Hands Public Hall & Cinema is a movie theater.
Ysgol Maes Y Gwendraeth
School
Ysgol Maes Y Gwendraeth is a bilingual secondary school for pupils aged between 11 and 18 years, situated in Cefneithin, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The school was opened following the amalgamation of Ysgol Maes yr Yrfa and Ysgol y Gwendraeth secondary schools in 2013.
Llyn Llech Owain
Reservoir
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llyn Llech Owain is a shallow lake with an area of 3.5 hectares which gives its name to the country park in which it sits, it is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest which was designated in 1993.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gorslas and Cefneithin.
Gorslas
Village
Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gorslas is a village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, located on the A476 road northwest of Cross Hands. The village population at the 2011 census was 4,066.
Cefneithin
Village
Cefneithin is a village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, in the Carmarthenshire coalfield area. It lies just off the A48 road, 7 miles north west of Ammanford and 9 miles north of Llanelli.
Tumble
Village
Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tumble, is a village situated south of Cross Hands near the towns of Carmarthen and Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Tumble, along with Cross Hands is part of the community of Llannon. The population, including Drefach was 4,302.
Cross Hands
- Type: Village with 4,550 residents
- Description: village in Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom
- Category: locality
- Location: Llannon, Carmarthenshire, South Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.79497° or 51° 47′ 42″ northLongitude
-4.08594° or 4° 5′ 9″ westPopulation
4,550Elevation
456 feet (139 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RHDOpen location code
9C3QQWV7+XJOpenStreetMap ID
node 454664870OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Cross Hands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كروس هاندز”
- Basque: “Cross Hands”
- Breton: “Cross Hands”
- Cebuano: “Cross Hands”
- Dutch: “Cross Hands”
- French: “Cross Hands”
- Irish: “Cross Hands”
- Persian: “کراس هندز”
- Swedish: “Cross Hands”
- Welsh: “Cross Hands”
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