Llandybie is a civil parish, and a large village two miles north of Ammanford in Carmarthenshire, West Wales. A civil parish in the United Kingdom is a unit of local government. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. Ammanford ( Rhydaman) is the third largest Town in the County of Carmarthenshire, Wales, with a population 5299 according to Geography The county is bounded to the north by Ceredigion, to the east by Powys, Neath Port Talbot and Swansea, to the south by the West Wales (Gorllewin Cymru is the western area of Wales bordered by South Wales to the east and Mid Wales to the north
The latest Ordnance Survey map the Grid reference at the centre of the village is SN 617 154. Ordnance Survey (OS is an Executive agency of the United Kingdom government Grid references define locations on Maps using Cartesian coordinates. According to the United Kingdom Census 2001 the village is home to 3,800, while the parish , which also includes the villages of Penygroes, Penybanc, Capel Hendre, Caerbryn, Blaenau, Cwmgwili, Pentregwenlais and Saron has 8,800 inhabitants. A nationwide Census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001 Pen-y-Groes (alternatively spelt as Penygroes is a large Village in north-west Wales.
Llandybie hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1944. The National Eisteddfod of Wales ( Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru) is the most important of several Eisteddfodau that are held annually mostly in Wales. Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It benefits from a railway station on the Heart of Wales Line. |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains History Historically the line was known as the Central Wales Line (Llinell Canol Cymru and also included routes through Gowerton, where the railway crossed the It has a primary school, Llandybie CP School, which is located in the North Easterly fringe of the village. See also Primary education A primary school (from French école primaire) is an institution where children receive the first stage of Compulsory
Llandybie was the first place in the world where the mineral Brammallite was found. Brammallite is a sodium rich analogue Illite. First found in 1943 in Llandybie, Carmarthenshire, Wales, it is named after
External links
- grid reference SN616155
- Llandybie CP School
- www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Llandybie and surrounding area
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