Carway ( cy, Carwe) is a village situated to the north-west of the town of Llanelli in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales, in the

Gwendraeth Valley The River Gwendraeth ( cy, Afon Gwendraeth) is a river in Carmarthenshire in West Wales. It has two almost equal branches that have their confluence in their joint estuary at Carmarthen Bay. The Gwendraeth Fawr (''large Gwendraeth'' in English) ...

. It is part of the community of Llangyndeyrn, and had a population of 672 in 2011. Open-cast mining operations once operated to the north and south of the village. The northern area has been reclaimed and re-developed as the Glyn Abbey Golf Club. The former mining area south of the village at

Ffos Las Ffos Las is a rural area between the villages of Carway and Trimsaran, north of the town of Llanelli in the River Gwendraeth, Gwendraeth Valley in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The Ffos Las area is named after a farm which had existed at the site befor ...

has been reclaimed and has been redeveloped with a new racecourse (opened on 18 June 2009) and housing.

Glyn Abbey Golf Club

The Glyn Abbey Golf Club is an 18-hole golf course designed by Hawtree & Son Golf Architects and opened in 1992 on the southern slopes of the picturesque

and was built by

British Coal The British Coal Corporation was a nationalised corporation responsible for the mining of coal in the United Kingdom from 1987 until it was effectively dissolved in 1997. The corporation was created by renaming its predecessor, the National Co ...

as part of its restoration plan. The course is a par 70 course which is some 6202 yards in length with greens covering an area of 490m². The club was named Welsh Golf Club of The Year 2009.

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Glyn Abbey Golf Club
{{authority control Llanelli Villages in Carmarthenshire