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spent much of his life in the village and took it as part of his name. He was Gwynfe British School Schoolmaster during 1867 to 1882, followed by Cwmllwyd born John Williams during 1882 to 1909 - husband to Cwmsite born Elizabeth née Williams a granddaughter of Morgan Williams of Blaenllynant and
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was born in the village at Bailey in 1840 as third son to David and Eleanor Williams of Blaenllynant where he was raised. He was physician accoucheur to Queen Mary from when she was the Duchess of York at the births of the later Kings Edward VIII and George VI; and he was Founder President from
413:. 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 291: 583: 456:, 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 368: 265: 495: 249: 499:
1907 of the National Library of Wales and President from 1913 of the University College of Wales Aberystwyth, in both cases until his death at Aberystwyth in 1926.
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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
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now used as an information centre and a modern community hall built in 2001. The community association have erected 2 large woodcarvings of three
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The village previously had a number of services that are no longer present including 2 pubs, a school, 2
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Gwynfe, a chapelry in Llangadock parish, Carmarthen; under the Black Mountain, and near the
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Plasnewydd, who was elder brother of Sir John Williams's father David.
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Capel Gwynfe
Welsh

Location of Gwynfe within Wales
Carmarthenshire
OS grid reference
SN720218
Community
Llangadog
Principal area
Carmarthenshire
Preserved county
Dyfed
Country
Wales
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
SA19
Police
Dyfed-Powys
Fire
Mid and West Wales
Ambulance
Welsh
UK Parliament
Caerfyrddin
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
UK

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