Mynydd-y-Garreg or Mynyddygarreg ("The mountain of the stone") is a village in the

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

Carmarthenshire Carmarthenshire ( cy, Sir Gaerfyrddin; or informally ') is a county in the south-west of Wales. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre. The county is known as ...

West Wales West Wales ( cy, Gorllewin Cymru) is not clearly defined as a particular region of Wales. Some definitions of West Wales include only Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, which historically comprised the Welsh principality of ''Deheub ...

. It borders the historic town of

Kidwelly Kidwelly ( cy, Cydweli) is a town and community in Carmarthenshire, southwest Wales, approximately northwest of the most populous town in the county, Llanelli. In the 2001 census the community of Kidwelly returned a population of 3,289, inc ...

Governance

Mynydd-y-Garreg is in the Kidwelly

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and shares with it a mayor and an elected council,

Kidwelly Town Council Kidwelly Town Council (Welsh: ''Cyngor Tref Cydweli'') is the town council serving the town of Kidwelly and the village of Mynydd-y-Garreg in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales. Background Kidwelly Town Council consists of 16 Councillors. The ...

Transport

By road, the village lies 1 km from the

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, which connects

Llanelli Llanelli (" St Elli's Parish"; ) is a market town and the largest community in Carmarthenshire and the preserved county of Dyfed, Wales. It is located on the Loughor estuary north-west of Swansea and south-east of the county town, Carmarth ...

and

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, ...

. For rail travel,

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lies 4 km (2.5 miles) away by road. It provides a two-hourly daytime service on Mondays to Saturdays. Some trains reach as far as London and Manchester. Bus services through Kidwelly provide links to

, Swansea and other places.

Amenities

The village has a Welsh-medium

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, Ysgol Mynydd-y-Garreg School. The county mobile library service visits the village every Wednesday between 11.30 and 12.30. The Bro Cydweli LMA group parish of the

Church in Wales The Church in Wales ( cy, Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru) is an Anglican church in Wales, composed of six dioceses. The Archbishop of Wales does not have a fixed archiepiscopal see, but serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops. The p ...

provides a bilingual afternoon service on the first and third Sundays of the month at St Teilo's Church, Mynyddygarreg.

Saint Teilo Saint Teilo ( la, Teliarus or '; br, TeliauWainewright, John. in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', Vol. XIV. Robert Appleton Co. (New York), 1912. Accessed 20 July 2013. or '; french: Télo or '; – 9 February ), also known by his ...

(c. 500 – 9 c. 560) was a 6th-century British monk and early Welsh saint from Pembrokeshire. The village has a local

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

team called Mynydd-y-Garreg RFC. It offers training facilities and a playing field with a clubhouse. The

public house A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and wa ...

in the village, the ''Prince of Wales'', had been recognised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide. Nonetheless, it had to close in 2017.

Notable residents

*The

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minister, author and noted historian Tom Beynon (1886–1961), was born and grew up in Mynydd-y-Garreg. *The village was home to the Welsh national

legend

Ray Gravell Raymond William Robert Gravell (12 September 1951 – 31 October 2007) was a Welsh rugby union centre who played club rugby for Llanelli RFC. At international level, Gravell earned 23 caps for Wales and was selected for the 1980 British Lions t ...

(1951–2007). A road there was named after him, and after his death a sculpture erected in his honour at the

Llanelli Scarlets The Scarlets () are one of the four professional Welsh rugby union teams and are based in Llanelli, Wales. Their home ground is the Parc y Scarlets stadium. They play in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup (which ...

' stadium

Parc y Scarlets ''Parc y Scarlets'' (, en, Scarlets Park) is a rugby union stadium in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, that opened in November 2008 as the new home of the Scarlets and Llanelli RFC. The ground replaced Stradey Park, the home of Llanelli's rugby teams ...

, where it stands on a plinth of stone quarried from the village.

Fossil remains

Smarts Quarry Smarts Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Carmarthenshire, Wales, designated in 1987 for its geological features. SSSI Smarts Quarry SSSI is located approximately east-north-east of Mynydd-y-Garreg, and covers . The SSS ...

, half a mile to the east of the village, is a 2.6 ha Site of Special Scientific Interest notable for its

quartzite Quartzite is a hard, non- foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.Essentials of Geology, 3rd Edition, Stephen Marshak, p 182 Sandstone is converted into quartzite through heating and pressure usually related to tec ...

fossil remains.

References

External links

Photographs of Mynydd-y-Garreg and surrounding area
from the www.geograph.org.uk site {{DEFAULTSORT:Mynydd-Y-Garreg Kidwelly Villages in Carmarthenshire