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Although not as famous as the Llanelli or Pontypool works, a concentrated number of works emerged around Swansea, Aberavon and Neath towards the late 19th century. [19] [full citation needed] Glamorgan became the most populous and industrialised county in Wales and was known as the 'crucible of the Industrial Revolution'. [20] [21] [full ...
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.
Llanelli Borough Council, based at Llanelli Town Hall, was the area local authority until Carmarthenshire County Council became the unitary authority in 1996. [ 58 ] In 2024 the town's council voiced its support for a bid to become a city.
Carmarthenshire Heritage Regeneration Trust. 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 ...
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 industrial activity ceased in the mid-twentieth century, the buildings were demolished and the site ...
Llanelli Rural District. The district was the smallest by area of six districts in the newly created county of Dyfed. The district held borough status, allowing the chair of the council to take the title of mayor. [3] The borough of Llanelli was abolished 22 years later under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, with the area becoming part of ...
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.
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] The borough council, which had ceased to meet, [3] was abolished under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883. [4]