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51°41′02″N 4°09′47″W / 51.684°N 4.163°W / 51.684; -4.163. Llanelli (" St Elli 's Parish "; Welsh: [ɬaˈnɛɬi] ⓘ) is a market town and community in Carmarthenshire and the preserved county of Dyfed, Wales. It is located on the Loughor estuary and is also the largest town in the county of Carmarthenshire.
1779 – Wesley visits again. 1780 – Independent chapel established at Capel Als. 1785 – Calvinist Methodist 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.
Llanelly House (also spelled Llanelli House) [1] is one of the most notable historic properties in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales —an excellent example of an early-18th-century Georgian town house. It had been described as "the most outstanding domestic building of its early Georgian type to survive in South Wales."
Parc Howard Museum & Art Gallery. Parc Howard Museum & Art Gallery is a museum in a 19th-century Italianate country house, situated in 24 acres (9.7 ha) of parkland, north of the town centre of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The park is registered on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
In the 18th century the portreeve and burgesses of Llanelli met in the Falcon Inn in Thomas Street. [2] The first purpose-built town hall in Llanelli, which was designed with arcading on the ground floor to allow markets to be held and with an assembly room on the first floor, was erected in Hall Street in 1827. [2]
Llanelli 's listed buildings include houses, churches and chapels, schools, commercial buildings, the town hall, a signal box and other industrial architecture. [1] A listed building is one considered to be of special architectural, historical or cultural significance, and has restrictions on amendments or demolition.
WWT Llanelli Wetlands Centre. / 51.665; -4.125. WWT Llanelli Wetland Centre at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales is one of ten wetland nature reserves in the UK managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, a nature conservation charity. The visitor centre has accessible toilets, a coffee shop and retail area.
Llanelly. Coordinates: 51.82652°N 3.11579°W. Llanelly (Welsh: Llanelli) is the name of a parish and coterminous community in the principal area of Monmouthshire, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire, south-east Wales. It roughly covers the area of the Clydach Gorge. The population of the parish and ward at the 2011 census was 3,899.