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Carmarthenshire

Llanelli

Llanelli is a large town in that sums up everything that South Wales was historically about: Rugby Union, religious nonconformity, proud preservation of the Welsh language, metal-bashing of steel for car production and tinplate for tin cans — and brownfield desolation when this industry declined.
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  • Type: Town with 43,900 residents
  • Description: town in Carmarthenshire, Wales
  • Also known as: “Llanelli, Carmarthenshire” and “Llanelli, Wales”
  • Historically known as: “Llanelly”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parc y Scarlets and Stebonheath Park.

Stadium
Photo: Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a rugby union stadium in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, that opened in November 2008 as the new home of the Scarlets and Llanelli RFC. The ground replaced Stradey Park, the home of Llanelli's rugby teams for almost 130 years.

Stadium
Photo: David Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a multi-use in Llanelli, West Wales with a capacity of 3,700. It is primarily used as a football ground and is the home of Llanelli Town A.F.C.

Railway station
Photo: Hywel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the railway station serving the town of Llanelli, , . It is located on the West Wales line and the Heart of Wales line 225 miles 20 chains from the zero point at London Paddington, measured via Stroud.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burry Port and Llwynhendy.

Photo: David Lewis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in in South , 5 miles to the west of Llanelli. It is a harbour town and is famous for being the landing site of Amelia Earheart in her successful attempt at being the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

Suburb
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, is a village and ward near the town of Llanelli in , Wales. The ward, which includes the village, as well as Cefncaeau, parts of Cwmcarnhywel and parts of Bryn and Penceilogi, had a population of 4,276.

Village
Photo: David Lewis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small coastal village, located between Llanelli and , , Wales. Situated on a narrow ledge above the tidal Burry Estuary, the village offers panoramic views across the water to the Gower Peninsula and is traversed by the Millennium Coastal Path, a thirteen-mile traffic-free greenway connecting Bynea to Pembrey.

Llanelli

Latitude
51.6797° or 51° 40′ 47″ north
Longitude
-4.162° or 4° 9′ 43″ west
Population
43,900
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LLN
Open location code
9C3QMRHQ+V5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21413323
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2644100
Wiki­data ID
Q990125
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Llanelli” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لنلي”
  • Asturian: “Llanelli”
  • Basque: “Llanelli”
  • Bengali: “ল্যানেল্লি রুরাল”
  • Bengali: “ল্যানেল্লি”
  • Breton: “Llanelli”
  • Bulgarian: “Ланели”
  • Catalan: “Llanelli”
  • Cebuano: “Llanelli”
  • Chinese: “Llanelli”
  • Chinese: “拉內利”
  • Chinese: “拉内利”
  • Cornish: “Llanelli”
  • Czech: “Llanelli”
  • Danish: “Llanelli”
  • Dutch: “Llanelli”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ثلانيثلى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لنلى”
  • Esperanto: “Llanelli”
  • French: “Llanelli”
  • Galician: “Llanelli”
  • German: “Llanelli”
  • Gujarati: “લાનેલી”
  • Hebrew: “לנלי”
  • Indonesian: “Llanelli”
  • Irish: “Llanelli”
  • Italian: “Llanelli”
  • Japanese: “サネシ”
  • Japanese: “シャーネシ”
  • Japanese: “スラネスリ”
  • Japanese: “ラネリ・ルーラル”
  • Japanese: “ラネリ”
  • Japanese: “ラネリー”
  • Kannada: “ಲಾನೆಲ್ಲಿ”
  • Korean: “라넬리”
  • Korean: “흘라네흘리”
  • Latvian: “Laneli”
  • Lithuanian: “Lanelis”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Llanelli”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Llanelli”
  • Norwegian: “Llanelli”
  • Persian: “سانسی، ولز”
  • Persian: “لنلی”
  • Polish: “Llanelli”
  • Portuguese: “Llanelli”
  • Russian: “Llanelli”
  • Russian: “Лланелли”
  • Scots: “Llanelli”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Llanelli”
  • Silesian: “Llanelli”
  • Slovenian: “Llanelli”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سانسی، ولز”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سانسی”
  • Spanish: “Llanelli (Galés)”
  • Spanish: “Llanelli”
  • Swedish: “Llanelli”
  • Tamil: “லாநெல்லி”
  • Tatar: “Лланелли”
  • Telugu: “లానేలి”
  • Telugu: “ల్లానెల్లి”
  • Ukrainian: “Лланеллі”
  • Urdu: “خلانیتھلی”
  • Vietnamese: “Llanelli”
  • Welsh: “Llanelli”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Llanelli”. Photo: Lesbardd, CC BY-SA 4.0.