Blaen-y-Coed on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Blaenycoed, or Blaen-y-coed is a village situated between
Blaenycoed, or Blaen-y-coed is a village situated between Carmarthen
Carmarthen (, RP: ; cy, Caerfyrddin , "Merlin's fort" or "Sea-town fort") is the county town of Carmarthenshire and a community in Wales, lying on the River Towy. north of its estuary in Carmarthen Bay. The population was 14,185 in 2011, ...
and Newcastle Emlyn
Newcastle Emlyn ( cy, Castellnewydd Emlyn) is a town on the River Teifi, straddling the counties of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire in West Wales. It is also a community entirely within Carmarthenshire, bordered by those of Llangeler and Cenarth ...
, Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
, 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.
Notable people
Howell Elvet Lewis
Howell Elvet Lewis (14 April 1860 – 10 December 1953), widely known by his bardic name Elfed, was a Welsh Congregational minister, hymn-writer, and devotional poet, who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1924 to 1928. ...
, 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.
References