Blaenycoed
Village in Carmarthenshire, Wales
Human settlement in Wales
- Cynwyl Elfed
- Carmarthenshire
- Carmarthenshire
- Caerfyrddin
- Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
- List of places
- UK
- Wales
- Carmarthenshire
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Blaenycoed, or Blaen-y-coed is a village situated between Carmarthen and Newcastle Emlyn, Wales, of 17 houses, a Welsh Independents chapel, a postbox and small farms. Blaen-y-coed literally translates to mean "Head-of-the-wood.". Woodland Rise is a camping and caravanning site in the village.[1]
Notable people
Howell Elvet Lewis, the Independent minister, hymn-writer, poet, known as Elfed, was born in 1860. The house where he was born, Y Gangell, is near Blaenycoed and contains a small exhibition of his life. His ashes were also scattered in Blaenycoed chapel graveyard.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Woodland Rise Camping and Caravan Park – Camping and Caravan Park for adults and children situated in the West Wales countryside".