South Wales
Carmarthenshire
Cynwyl Elfed

Cynwyl Elfed

Cynwyl Elfed is a village and community in the county of , Wales. The community includes the villages of Cynwyl Elfed, and .
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  • Type: Village with 1,000 residents
  • Description: village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Conwil Elvet”, “Conwil-Elvet”, “Conwil-in-Elvet”, and “Conwyl Elfed”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blaen-y-coed Independent Chapel and Danycoed Halt railway station.

Church
Photo: Morfuddnia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church, which is situated 1½ miles west of Cynwyl Elfed.

Railway station
Photo: Robert Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Danycoed Halt, which is Welsh for below the trees, was built by the Gwili Railway in the late 1990s and opened in 2001. It is the current northern terminus of the line, but may become redundant when the preserved railway extends over a mile northwards into the nearby Conwyl station site and then further on up to Llanpumpsaint Station some 2+1⁄2 miles further on. is situated 2 miles southeast of Cynwyl Elfed.

Railway station
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Llwyfan Cerrig is a heritage railway station on the preserved Gwili Railway. The station previously did not exist before the closure of the Carmarthen to Aberystwyth Line in 1965 and was constructed and later opened in 1988 by the Gwili Railway. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Cynwyl Elfed.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blaenycoed and Llannewydd.

Village
Photo: Cwmcafit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, or Blaen-y-coed is a village situated between and , , of 17 houses, a Welsh Independents chapel, a postbox and small farms. is situated 1½ miles west of Cynwyl Elfed.

Village
or Newchurch is a parish in , . It is 3 miles north of Carmarthen on the banks of the . The church was rebuilt in 1829. It is in the community of . is situated 2 miles south of Cynwyl Elfed.

Village
Photo: Emrys Harries, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , West Wales. is situated 2 miles north of Cynwyl Elfed.

Cynwyl Elfed

Latitude
51.92292° or 51° 55′ 23″ north
Longitude
-4.36684° or 4° 22′ 1″ west
Population
1,000
Elevation
243 feet (74 metres)
Open location code
9C3QWJFM+57
Open­Street­Map ID
node 92411556
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2652428
Wiki­data ID
Q5200192
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Cynwyl Elfed” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Breton: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Catalan: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Cebuano: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Chinese: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Cornish: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Dutch: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • French: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Galician: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • German: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Irish: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Italian: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Scots: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Swedish: “Cynwyl Elfed”
  • Welsh: “Cynwyl Elfed”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Cynwyl Elfed Post Office and Neuadd Gymunedol Cynwyl Elfed.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cynwyl Elfed”. Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.