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6 unusual facts about Llanelli


Ffos Las

Ffos Las is a rural area between the villages of Carway and Trimsaran, north of the town of Llanelli in the Gwendraeth Valley in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Neil Haddock

Born in Newport, but growing up in Llanelli, Haddock was involved in boxing from a young age and was Welsh Junior Champion at the age of 17.

Paul Pogba

He made his youth international debut on 23 September 2008 in the team's opening match of the campaign against Wales in Llanelli.

South Wales Coalfield

Tramway-fed canals such as the Swansea Canal and Glamorganshire Canal were supplemented, and then superseded, by the development of numerous competing railway branches which fed docks principally at Swansea, Cardiff, Newport, Llanelli and Barry.

Toni Šunjić

Šunjić made his international debut for Bosnia in a friendly against Wales in Llanelli on 15 August 2012 coming on as a 2nd half substitute.

William Glynne-Jones

William Glynne-Jones was born and brought up in Llanelli.


Alfred Cattell

This was the first match of the first Home Nations Championship and Cattell along with Thomas Judson and Harry Bowen became the first players to represent Llanelli in an international game.

Archie Skym

Archie Skym (12 July 1906-15 June 1970) was an international rugby union player for Wales and played club rugby for Llanelli and Cardiff.

Brains Brewery

The company took over the Crown Buckley brewery in Llanelli in 1997, and the Hancock's Brewery in 1999, moving to its current location, behind Cardiff Central railway station in 2000.

Bronco All Terrain Tracked Carrier

Once delivered to the UK, contractor Thales fits the vehicles according to MoD specifications with communications systems, specialist counter-measure equipment and extra protective armour at their facility in the former MoD depot at Llangennech near Llanelli, South Wales.

Buckley Roderick

Played under the captaincy of Joe Simpson the team was made up of mainly Cardiff, Newport and Swansea players, Roderick being the sole representative from Llanelli.

Bynea railway station

Bynea railway station serves the village of Bynea near Llanelli, West Wales.

Carwyn James

James stood as Plaid Cymru candidate in Llanelli in the 1970 General Election.

Charles Lynn Davies

Charles Lynn 'Cowboy' Davies (born 30 December 1929) was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for several clubs including Llanelli and Cardiff.

Chum Ochse

Ochse's next two matches were against two Welsh teams, Cardiff and Llanelli.

Cowboy Saunders

The South Africans won the opener and the two games that followed, for which Saunders was rested, before facing two Welsh teams in succession, Cardiff and Llanelli.

Emyr Lewis

A flanker, he played his club rugby for Cardiff RFC, but played his best rugby for Llanelli RFC and Carmarthen Athletic.

Ferryside

The village has a railway station which has regular rail connections to London Paddington, Pembroke Dock, Milford Haven, Carmarthen, Swansea, Cardiff, Crewe and Manchester Picadilly, regular buses between Carmarthen and Llanelli.

George Warren, 2nd Baron de Tabley

Margaret Warren (1847–1921), married Arthur Cowell-Stepney, 2nd Baronet (aka Emile Algernon Arthur Keppel Cowell-Stepney) (1834–1909), of Llanelli, in 1875.

Geraint the Snakeman

He also runs Ghost Watch Wales, a paranormal investigation business, and is credited with inviting Most Haunted to a number of locations in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire and Port Talbot.

Glynneath RFC

The strong players Nigel Davies, Rupert Moon, Robin McBryde, Craig Quinnell and Phil Davies, and others, played for Llanelli.

James Motley

He worked as an engineer and manager (at Tewgoed (or 'Terrgoed') Colliery at Cwmafan); then underground surveyor to William Chambers of Llanelli; and finally, at Abercrave colliery, iron works, iron mines, and limestone quarries while maintaining an active interest in natural history, especially botany (he left a herbarium at the Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea), and folklore.

Joe Partington

Due to the Northern Ireland game being cancelled he made his under-21 debut on 31 March 2009 against Luxembourg at Llanelli's Parc y Scarlets.

Joseph Stone, Baron Stone

Joe Stone was a General Practitioner, originally from Llanelli in Wales, who after qualifying in Cardiff worked as a GP in and around Hendon.

Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway

In 1965 0-6-0 PT 1607 of Llanelli shed 87F was purchased by the National Coal Board and worked at Cynheidre Colliery until 1969 when it was condemned with a cracked frame, and was subsequently scrapped on site.

Llangennech railway station

Llangennech railway station serves the village of Llangennech near Llanelli, West Wales.

Merthyr Synagogue

Unlike the "simple," "charming" Gothic synagogues that once graced Llanelli and Pontypridd, however, the synagogue of Merthyr Tydfil is a "Disneyland" fantasy of a building that architectural historian Sharman Kadish calls a "double-turreted Gothic folly" of a building.

Mikel Japp

Japp joined May Fisher, a Llanelli-based band, just before it was taken up by a London rock and pop music agency - through a friend who went on to establish 3PR - and sent on an extended and successful tour of Yugoslavia under a new name: Thank You.

North Dock, Llanelli

North Dock is a former industrial dock in Llanelli, West Wales used mainly for exporting coal and tin plate from South Wales.

Robert Buckland

Robert Buckland was born in Llanelli in 1968, and was educated at St Michael's School Llanelli, Hatfield College, Durham, where he became Secretary of the Junior Common Room and President of the Union Society.

St. John Lloyd

The school is situated in Llanelli's Dafen suburb, although pupils are drawn from as far afield as Carmarthen, Pembrey, Burry Port, Kidwelly, and Trimsaran.


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