Llangennech

Llangennech
Population	4,964 (2011 census)
OS grid reference	SN560015
Community	Llangennech
Principal area	Carmarthenshire
Preserved county	Dyfed
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LLANELLI
Postcode district	SA14
Dialling code	01554
Police	Dyfed-Powys
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
UK Parliament	Llanelli
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Llanelli

Llangennech is a village in the area of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

It is governed by Carmarthenshire County Council and Llanelli Rural council. It falls in the Llanelli parliamentary constituency. Llangennech is also the name of an electoral ward coterminous with the village and has its own community council. It was a coal mining community, with several local collieries mining steam coal. There is also a large Labour tradition in the village emanating from the mine workers. There was a large Royal Navy depot in the village, which was closed in Ministry of Defence restructuring.

Llangennech has a strong rugby union team, Llangennech RFC, that feed many players into Llanelli RFC and then on to the Llanelli Scarlets regional rugby union team.

The town is served by Llangennech railway station on the Heart of Wales Line with trains to Swansea to the south and Shrewsbury to the north.

The community is bordered by the communities of: Llanelli Rural, Llannon, and Llanedi, all being in Carmarthenshire; and by Grovesend and Waungron and Gorseinon in the City and County of Swansea.

Notable residents

• Hywel Teifi Edwards Welsh Historian, lecturer and author lived in the village.
• Huw Edwards, BBC news presenter lived in the village during his youth.
• Rhys Gabe, Welsh international rugby player was born in Llangennech.
• Eileen Beasley Welsh language campaigner, lived here during her and her husband's campaign for Welsh language tax bills.

Llangennech Railway Station

External links

• Official Website
• Carmarthenshire County Council
• www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Llangennech and surrounding area