Capel Gwynfe
Gwynfe
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 Gwynfe Church and Church Hall in 2006 |
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| Gwynfe shown within Carmarthenshire | |
| OS grid reference | SN720218 |
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| Ceremonial county | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | SA19 |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| EU Parliament | Wales |
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Gwynfe or Capel Gwynfe is a small village in Carmarthenshire in the Brecon Beacons National Park. It is situated between Trichrug and the western slopes of the Black Mountain, to the west of the A4069 road about halfway between Llangadog and Brynamman. The village comprises a scattered collection of mostly nineteenth and twentieth-century housing that developed around several chapels. The area around the village is mainly farmland and the village was 2004 'Village of the Year for Carmarthenshire'. The village has a grade-two listed phone box now used as an information centre and a modern community hall built in 2001. The community association have erected 2 large woodcarvings of three red kites.
The village developed with the founding of the turnpike road past the village church, which is on a site continuously occupied by a church since around 1710. The current church was built in 1899. An older chapel of ease, built in around 1812, is now used as the church hall. The village also has two chapels, Capel Maen dating from 1852, and Jerusalem chapel built in 1827. Jerusalem celebrated the 350th anniversary of its founding on 03 June 2006 with a brief history related by Carnaugwynion Gwynfe born Emeritus Professor (of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry at Cardiff University) J.D.Ronald Thomas.
The 1870-72 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gwynfe chapelry as:
Gwynfe, a chapelry in Llangadock parish, Carmarthen; under the Black Mountain, and near the Mid Wales railway, in the neighbourhood of Llangadock. Post town, Llangadock, under Carmarthen. Real property, £3,083. Pop., 1,354. Houses, 271. Gwynfe House is a chief residence. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of St. Davids. Value, £107. Patron, the Vicar of Llangadock-Vawr.
The village previously had a number of services that are no longer present including 2 pubs, a school, 2 smithies, a corn mill and a woollen factory.
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