Llangynfelyn is both a

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...

and a

community A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with commonality such as place, norms, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, ...

Ceredigion Ceredigion ( , , ) is a county in the west of Wales, corresponding to the historic county of Cardiganshire. During the second half of the first millennium Ceredigion was a minor kingdom. It has been administered as a county since 1282. Cer ...

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, midway between Aberystwyth and

Machynlleth Machynlleth () is a market town, community and electoral ward in Powys, Wales and within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire. It is in the Dyfi Valley at the intersection of the A487 and the A489 roads. At the 2001 Census it had a pop ...

. It stretches from the Leri estuary in the west to Moel y Llyn in the east, and from Lodge Park in the north to Talybont on the A487 to the south; the total area is . The population in 2001 was 641 and 587 at the 2011 Census . The parish includes Llangynfelyn, Tre-Taliesin, Tre'r Ddôl and Craig y Penrhyn. The parish is named after the parish church of St Cynfelyn. Various alternate spellings are used, particularly Llancynfelyn and Llancynfelin.
Llangynfelyn Community Council
''(Cyngor Cymuned Llangynfelyn)'' serves the communities of Llangynfelyn, Tre'r Ddol and Tre'r Taliesin. The Council currently has nine members and meets monthly. Llangynfelyn Community Council is part of the Ceulanamaesmawr Ward. Catrin M S Davies was elected as the County Councillor for the Ceulanamaesmawr County Councillor in May 2022.

Tre'r Ddôl

Soar Chapel in ''Tre'r Ddôl'' was formerly the site of the ''Hen Gapel'' (Old Chapel) Museum, a branch of the Welsh National Folk Museum which closed in the 1990s. The museum was originally created in the late 1960s by the academic R J Thomas, editor of the ''

Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru ''Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (GPC)'' (''The University of Wales Dictionary'') is the only standard historical dictionary of the Welsh language, aspiring to be "comparable in method and scope to the ''Oxford English Dictionary''". Vocabulary is defi ...

''. Soar Chapel was chosen for its links with Humphrey Rowland Jones (1832–1895), who had begun the 1858–60 Welsh revival there. The poet and farmer, Dic Jones, and the writer Elma Mary Williams were born in ''Tre'r Ddôl''. (link says Birmingham?)

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