Cwmcarnhywel

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Cwmcarnhywel
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Cwmcarnhywel
Location within Carmarthenshire
Principal area
Shire county
  • Carmarthenshire
Country Wales
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LLANELLI
Postcode district SA14
Police Dyfed-Powys
Fire Mid and West Wales
Ambulance Welsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
List of places
UK
Wales
Carmarthenshire
51°40′55″N4°07′12″W / 51.6820°N 4.1200°W / 51.6820; -4.1200

Cwmcarnhywel is a village in between Llwynhendy, Pemberton, Penceilogi and Bryn in Llanelli. The village is home to a row of shops; The Avenue, Ysgol Gymraeg Brynsierfel (the area's Welsh school) and became a village after the council estate was built in the 1950s. Before that, Cwm-Carn-Hywel was the name given to a small hamlet near Pemberton. It also has its own police station which is named Llwynhendy police station as it is in the Llwynhendy electoral ward for Carmarthenshire County Council and Dyfed-Powys Police.

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