Llangynfelyn
Llangynfelyn is both a parish and a community in Ceredigion, Wales, midway between Aberystwyth and Machynlleth. It stretches from the Leri estuary in the west to Moel y Llyn in the east, and from Lodge Park in the north to Talybont on the A487 to the south; the total area is 9 square miles (23 km2). [2] The population in 2001 was 641 and 587 at the 2011 Census . The parish includes Llangynfelyn, Tre-Taliesin, Tre'r Ddôl and Craig y Penrhyn. The parish is named after the parish church of St Cynfelyn.
| Llangynfelyn | |
|---|---|
  Llangynfelyn Location within Ceredigion | |
| Area | 23.03 km2 (8.89 sq mi) |
| Population | 587 (2011)[1] |
| • Density | 25/km2 (65/sq mi) |
| Principal area | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Dyfed-Powys |
| Fire | Mid and West Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
Various alternate spellings are used, particularly Llancynfelyn and Llancynfelin. Llangynfelyn Community Council (Cyngor Cymuned Llangynfelyn) has nine members and meets monthly. The present members were elected in 2012.
Tre'r Ddôl
Soar Chapel in Tre'r Ddôl was formerly the site of the Hen Gapel (Old Chapel) Museum, a branch of the Welsh National Folk Museum which closed in the 1990s. The museum was originally created in the late 1960s by the academic R J Thomas, editor of the Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru. Soar Chapel was chosen for its links with Humphrey Rowland Jones (1832–1895), who had begun the 1858–60 Welsh revival there.[3] The poet and farmer, Dic Jones, and the writer Elma Mary Williams were born in Tre'r Ddôl.
External links
References
- "Community population 2011". Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=W04000385
- Humphrey R Jones, Dictionary of Welsh Biography
