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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 ...

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600s

St. Ellyw, a child or grandchild of king

Brychan Brychan Brycheiniog was a legendary 5th-century king of Brycheiniog (Brecknockshire, alternatively Breconshire) in Mid Wales. Life According to Celtic hagiography Brychan was born in Ireland, the son of a Prince Anlach, son of Coronac, and ...

and a disciple of

Cadoc Saint Cadoc or Cadog ( lat-med, Cadocus; also Modern Welsh: Cattwg; born or before) was a 5th–6th-century Abbot of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorgan, Wales, a monastery famous from the era of the British church as a centre of learni ...

built a

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, and lent his name to the town.

1600s

1607 – Oldest Map of Wales. Created by William Camden. Llanelly a small Town in South Wales where

Machynys Machynys, or Machynys Peninsula is a coastal area just to the south of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, Wales. In the nineteenth century an industrial community lived here working at the brickworks and tinplate works that occupied the site. When the ...

is shown to be a separate island called Bach hannis 1682 – Creation of Llanelly Church 1683 – Start of

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records

1700s

1714 - Llanelly House construction started. 1772 – John Wesley visits Llanelly. 1779 – Wesley visits again. 1780 – Independent chapel established at Capel Als. 1785 –

Calvinist Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, or simply Reformed) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Ca ...

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church established at Gelli On. 1791 – Blast furnace set up in Cwmddyche by Gevers and Ingman. 1795 – Alexander Raby begins to operate mining and melting of metal ores. Llanelly's population recorded as less than 500.

1800s

1801 – Llanelly's first census – population 2,972. 1802 – Establishment of foundry and engineering works by Waddle in New Dock. 1803 – Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramroad opened in May 1803. It had closed down by 1844, but the same trackway was used by the

Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway The Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway was authorised in 1875. It made use of part of the long defunct Carmarthenshire Railway or Tramroad of 1801. The older line began running trains in 1803, and was a plateway of about 4 feet gauge, with horse ...

more than 80 years later. 1805 – Llanelly's copper works established by Daniel & Co. 1809 – Llanelly is hit by floods. Jubilee of King George celebrated by townsfolk. Establishment of Capel Newydd. 1810 * Erw Fawr

coal pit Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

founded by General Ward. * Population: 2,972. 1813 – Box coal pit opened. 1822 – Sion Chapel founded. 1823 – Part of Parish Church is built. 1828 – Six bells put in tower of the Parish Church. Upper and Lower Markets opened.

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church built. 1829 – Construction of Hall Street and New Road begin. Railway allowed between St Davids and Machynys. R.J. Nevill buys all coal pits belonging to General Ward. 1830 – Cambrian copper works opened. 1831 – Town population recorded as 7,646. 1832 – * Seventeen persons die in Llanelly after the town is hit by cholera. * Llanelly was added as a contributory borough to the Carmarthen parliamentary district. 1834 -

Llanelly Railway The Llanelly Railway and Dock Company was an early Welsh railway system. It opened its first short line and a wet dock at Llanelly in 1834, and soon went on to build a longer line from Llanelly to serve pits in the Amman Valley, and then on to Lla ...

opened. 1835 – New Dock opened in Llanelly, the gas company is formed and the local industrialist Alexander Raby dies. 1839 – Swansea Road

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opened. 1840 – * The Llanelly Pottery was established. Closed 1923. * Population: 4,173. 1847 - Copperworks School was established, it is the oldest School in Llanelly. Built by Richard Janion Neville, son of Charles Neville of the Copperworks in Llanelly 1850 - St. Elli Parish Church Lynch gates and stocks were removed. 1875 –

Llanelli RFC Llanelli Rugby Football Club ( cy, Clwb Rygbi Llanelli) is a Welsh rugby union club founded on 30 March 1872. The club's historic home ground was Stradey Park in Llanelli, but they moved in 2008 to the new Parc y Scarlets in adjacent Pember ...

, one of the most storied

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clubs in Wales, is formed; though the club itself misidentified its formation date as 1872. 1879 –

Stradey Park Stradey Park (Welsh: ''Parc y Strade'') was a rugby union stadium located near the centre of the town of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It was the home of the Scarlets region and Llanelli RFC rugby teams. The stadium was a combination o ...

opens as the home of Llanelli RFC. It remained the home for Llanelli RFC for nearly 130 years, and later for the regional side

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 ...

, but closed in November 2008 when the teams' new home, ''

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 ...

'', opened in nearby Pemberton. 1886 -

Parc Howard Museum Parc Howard Museum & Art Gallery is a museum in a 19th-century Italianate country house, situated in of parkland, north of the town centre of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The park is registered on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks an ...

opened. 1897 - Stamping works opens in Seaside Llanelli. 1898 - Initial founding of Llanelly Steel Works Limited (later Duport Steel). 1895 – Host the National Eisteddfod of

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1900s

1901 - Population: 25,617. 1903 – Hosts the National Eisteddfod for a second time. 1904 - A train derails as it was over speeding, killing five and injuring 94 people. 1906 - St Elli Church, Llanelli rebuilt. 1909 - ''

Llanelli Star The ''Llanelli Star'' is a Welsh regional newspaper covering the areas of Llanelli and Carmarthen in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is published on a weekly basis in a tabloid form. The newspaper is published by Trinity Mirror, the ...

'' begins publication. 1911 – Riots occur as a part of railway strikes during ' the great unrest'. On 17 August, strikers at Llanelli held up trains at one of the level crossings in the town. The

army An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

was called in the next day and two bystanders were shot dead. Railway trucks carrying detonators were set on fire, causing an explosion that killed four people. 1911 - Palace Theatre, later called the Vint's Palace was established. 1912 - St. Elli Parish Church Llanelly. Lych Gates were replaced. 1920 - The Royal Theatre (Haggars) opens in Market Street Llanelli 1930 – Hosts the National Eisteddfod. 1930 - The Regal Cinema opens in Llanell. 1934 - The Ritz Ballroom opens in Llanelli. 1962 – Hosts the National Eisteddfod. 1970 - * The first Horse Race Track opened in Machynys. Owner Scrap and Merchant Bobby Bradley of Morfa Ynys Farm Llanelli. * Llanelli transmitting station built. 1972 – "The Day the Pubs Ran Dry"—31 October, when Llanelli RFC defeated the touring

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9-3 (10-3 in today's scoring system) before a crowd of 26,000 at Stradey Park. Pubs throughout the town ran dry serving fans celebrating the win. 1995 - Our Lady Queen of Peace Church opened.

2000s

2000 – Hosts the National Eisteddfod. 2008 – * 24 October—Stradey Park hosts its last match, an

EDF Energy Cup The Anglo-Welsh Cup (), was a cross-border rugby union knock-out cup competition that featured the 12 Premiership Rugby clubs and the four Welsh regions. It was a created as a replacement for the RFU Knockout Cup, which featured only English clubs ...

contest in which the Scarlets defeat

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27–0. * 15 November—

opens with a match between Llanelli RFC and Cardiff RFC, with the home team comfortably winning 32–3. 2009 – 31 January—The official opening ceremony of Parc y Scarlets is held; the main event is a match between the Scarlets and the

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, with the Scarlets winning 40–24.