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32-598: Dinefwr Park National Nature Reserve is an 800 acres (320 ha) estate about a mile (1.5 kilometres) from the centre of Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire owned by the National Trust , with a mansion in the centre. The highest point is occupied by the ruined Dinefwr Castle , ancient castle of the Deheubarth kingdom. It is a grade I Historic Park and a Site of Special Scientific Interest . There are 22 known variants on
64-588: A chance to see fallow deer and rare white park cattle throughout the year. The latter have been present in the area for over a thousand years, and make appearances in the laws of Hywel Dda . It is listed at Grade I on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales . The estate slopes down to the level fields of the River Tywi floodplain , where small lakes lend interest to
96-513: A total population of 2,971. The ward elects one county councillor. Llandeilo Town Council is based at the Shire Hall . Llandeilo has two main parks: Penlan Park and Parc Le Conquet. Penlan Park contains a bandstand and a woodland walk to the Dinefwr estate. Parc Le Conquet is home to the town’s bowls club. The town has several sports clubs. The local rugby union team is Llandeilo RFC , which
128-428: Is a Grade II listed building . In 2003 the outlines of two overlapping Roman forts were discovered during a ground radar survey. Further investigation in 2005 revealed that the earlier fort was the larger site of eight acres which dated to the late 70s AD and could have housed up to 2000 men. The smaller, 3.5 acre fort was a later garrison fort. This also had a vicus near its north east entrance. The forts are dated to
160-594: Is a division of land in Wales that forms the lowest tier of local government in Wales . Welsh communities are analogous to civil parishes in England but, unlike English parishes, communities cover the whole of Wales. There are 878 communities in Wales. Until 1974 Wales was divided into civil parishes . These were abolished by section 20 (6) of the Local Government Act 1972 , and replaced by communities by section 27 of
192-620: Is a town and community in Carmarthenshire , Wales , situated at the crossing of the River Towy by the A483 on a 19th-century stone bridge. Its population was 1,795 at the 2011 Census. It is adjacent to the westernmost point of the Brecon Beacons National Park . The town is served by Llandeilo railway station on the Heart of Wales Line . In 2021, The Sunday Times called the town one of
224-475: The 05:27 train from Swansea to Shrewsbury plunged off the damaged Glanrhyd Bridge into the river. The Llandeilo community is bordered by the communities of: Manordeilo and Salem ; Dyffryn Cennen ; Llanfihangel Aberbythych ; and Llangathen , all being in Carmarthenshire. A county Llandeilo electoral ward exists, which stretches south from the confines of Llandeilo to include Dyffryn Cennen , with
256-475: The Crown . In Wales, all town councils are community councils. There are now three communities with city status: Bangor , St Asaph and St Davids . The chair of a town council or city council will usually have the title mayor (Welsh: maer ). However, not every community has a council. In communities with populations too small to sustain a full community council, community meetings may be established. The communities in
288-655: The Opposition Andrew RT Davies MS ( C ) Shadow Cabinet ( current ) Prime Minister Rt Hon Keir Starmer MP ( L ) Secretary of State for Wales Rt Hon Jo Stevens MP (L) Principal councils ( leader list ) Corporate Joint Committees Local twinning see also: Regional terms and Regional economy United Kingdom Parliament elections European Parliament elections (1979–2020) Local elections Police and crime commissioner elections Referendums A community ( Welsh : cymuned )
320-569: The Tywi are of engineering interest. The single-arched Llandeilo Bridge was completed in 1848 and is Grade II* listed . The railway bridge, opened in 1852, is a rare survival of an early lattice truss bridge . In the Great Storm of 1987 , the floods were so severe that the River Tywi (Towy) overwhelmed the railway bridge crossing the river near Llandeilo. Four people, one of them a boy, were drowned when
352-549: The autumn of 2022, but was delayed until later in the winter. Community (Wales) Heir Apparent William, Prince of Wales First Minister ( list ) Rt Hon Eluned Morgan MS ( L ) Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies MS ( L ) Counsel General-designate – Elisabeth Jones Chief Whip and Trefnydd – Jane Hutt MS (L) Permanent Secretary Sixth Senedd Llywydd (Presiding Officer) Elin Jones MS ( PC ) Leader of
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#1732880600657384-745: The community boundaries within their area every fifteen years. The councils propose changes to the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales , which prepares a report and makes recommendations to the Welsh Government . If the Welsh Government accepts the recommendations, then it implements them using a statutory instrument . For example, in 2016 four new communities were created in the City and County of Cardiff . The legislation surrounding community councils in Wales has been amended significantly in
416-466: The early 12th century, Llandeilo came under the patronage of the Bishopric of St David's, an ecclesiastic borough that became responsible for the affairs of the town including its development as an important medieval market centre to an extensive agricultural hinterland. Until the middle of the 20th century, a fair called St. Teilo's Fair, which had been authorised initially by Edward I of England in 1291,
448-403: The end of the 9th century, the importance of Llandeilo as a spiritual centre had started to decline. Dinefwr Castle (anglicised as Dynevor) overlooks the River Tywi near the town. It lies on a ridge on the northern bank of the Tywi, with a steep drop of about 250 feet (76 m) to the river. Dinefwr was the chief seat of the kingdom of Deheubarth . The estate of Golden Grove lies near
480-716: The event included EastEnders actor Matt Lapinskas, Former Blackburn & Scotland defender Colin Hendry, Big Brother runner-up Glyn Wise, former Wales rugby player Mark Taylor, and Everton & Wales legend Neville Southall. The event helped raise over £4,500 for the hospice. In 2008 Llandeilo hosted the World Sheepdog Trials . The amount of traffic coming into the town has caused considerable debate. In 2020, town mayor, Owen James, said “As it stands it’s simply dangerous for people to come into Llandeilo. I know of people who don’t want to come into Llandeilo for that reason. Stand on
512-466: The gates of the fort and may have continued in use as the embryonic town after the Romans left in around AD120. Llandeilo is named after one of the better-known Celtic saints of the 6th century, Saint Teilo . The Welsh word llan signified a monastery or a church. Saint Teilo, who was a contemporary of Saint David , the patron saint of Wales , established a clas (a small monastic settlement) on
544-599: The grounds of the park, within Castle Woods, woodland owned since 1979 by the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales . However the castle itself, which also opens to the public, is in the care of Cadw , being a site first occupied by Rhodri the Great in the 9th century, and subsequently the chief castle of the kingdom of Deheubarth . Also in the woods of the park is St Tyfi's Church , the former parish church of Llandyfeisant. It
576-478: The landscape. Within the park is Newton House , which stands on the site of a medieval town-plant. It was replaced by a mansion of 1660, which was given a complete re-build in a Victorian Gothic style in the 1850s. The estate was sold by Richard Dinevor in 1972. The deer park and nature reserve were acquired by the National Trust in 1986, and the house 4 years later. The ruins of Dinefwr Castle are situated in
608-436: The latter part of the 1st Century AD (not long after the military conquest of Wales ) and were abandoned early in the 2nd Century AD. 51°52′48″N 4°00′58″W / 51.880°N 4.016°W / 51.880; -4.016 Llandeilo 51°53′06″N 3°59′31″W / 51.885°N 3.992°W / 51.885; -3.992 Llandeilo ( Welsh pronunciation: [ɬanˈdeilɔ] )
640-405: The main road – you know exactly why we need a bypass.” Work on a bypass road was scheduled to begin in 2019, directing traffic around the town. Commencement of construction work has been delayed. A freeze on construction of new roads in Wales did not include the bypass, which the Welsh Government has estimated to cost £50m. A final decision on how best to proceed with the bypass was scheduled for
672-506: The name, including 'Dynefwr' and the more anglicised 'Dynevor', but also, from the 13th century, Newton, or its Welsh equivalent, Y Drenewydd, being the new borough established by the Rhys family from 1297. Dinefwr in its various spellings, has an unknown origin or meaning, and both the park and the 18th century mansion have been known as Plas Dinefwr. The nearby medieval castle and the later mansion have both at times been called 'Dinefwr Castle'. Since
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#1732880600657704-511: The park and mansion were acquired by the National Trust, the terminology has started to settle towards calling the mansion 'Newton House', the medieval ruin 'Dinefwr Castle' and the park 'Dinefwr Park'. The Park, along with Newton House in its centre, is owned by the National Trust and is open to the public. It is the only parkland national nature reserve in Wales , having been designate in 2007. It has over 300 trees at least 400 years old, plus ancient pastureland, landscaped valley views and
736-617: The royalist general Sir Henry Vaughan. A royalist skirmish took place in the town in April 1648, defeating elements of the New Model Army . In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Llandeilo as having a population of 1,533. He observed that “the principal trade of the town is in corn and flour; the other industries include woollen cloth mills, timber and saw mills, and tanneries”. The road and railway bridges over
768-487: The same Act. The principal areas of Wales are divided entirely into communities. Unlike in England, where unparished areas exist, no part of Wales is outside a community, even in urban areas . Most, but not all, communities are administered by community councils , which are equivalent to English parish councils in terms of their powers and the way they operate. Welsh community councils may call themselves town councils unilaterally and may have city status granted by
800-498: The seat of a Bishop-Abbot. The Church of St Teilo soon became a 'mother church' to the surrounding district, acquiring an extensive estate, and possessing one of Wales' most beautiful and finely illustrated manuscripts – the Gospel Book of Saint Teilo . The discovery of fragments of two large Celtic crosses from this period provides further testimony to Llandeilo's importance and indeed prestige as an early ecclesiastical centre. Towards
832-563: The site of the present-day parish church. There is reasonable evidence to suggest, however, that Saint Teilo was buried in Llandeilo. The parish church of Llandeilo Fawr ("Great Llandeilo") is dedicated to Saint Teilo, and until 1880 its churchyard encompassed his baptistery . The early Christian settlement that developed around the Saint Teilo's Church prospered, and by the early 9th century it had attained considerable ecclesiastical status as
864-558: The top six places to live in Wales. The newspaper praised the town as a ‘sophisticated shopping destination and a great showcase for local arts and crafts’. Roman soldiers were active in the area around Llandeilo around AD74, as evidenced by the foundations of two castra discovered on the grounds of the Dinefwr estate. The fortifications measured 3.85 hectares and 1.54 hectares, respectively. Roman roads linked Llandeilo with Llandovery and Carmarthen. A small civil settlement developed outside
896-469: The town was at the centre of the parish known as Llandeilo Fawr. It was in the Diocese of St Davids and part of the archdeaconry of Carmarthen . In 1560, the bishop of St Davids recorded the population of Llandeilo Fawr as 620 households (perhaps amounting to 2,790 people), many of whom would have lived in Llandeilo itself. In the middle of the seventeenth century, Llandeilo was in the area of influence of
928-620: The town, and further away, the impressive Carreg Cennen Castle , another Welsh stronghold. The remains of Talley Abbey can be seen 6 miles (9.7 km) away to the north of the town. 10 miles (16 km) further north are the remains of the Roman Dolaucothi Gold Mines . In the centuries that followed the Norman conquest of England , the Bishop of Llandaff and Bishop of St David's both claimed Llandeilo for their respective diocese . By
960-551: The urban areas of the cities of Cardiff , Swansea and Newport do not have community councils. As of the 2001 United Kingdom census , there were 869 communities in Wales. 84 percent, or more than 730, have a council. They vary in size from Rhayader with an area of 13,945 hectares (34,460 acres) to Cefn Fforest with an area of 64 hectares (160 acres). They ranged in population from Barry with 45,053 recorded inhabitants to Baglan Bay with no permanent residents. The twenty-two principal area councils are required to review
992-708: Was held annually in the churchyard. Some of the agricultural produce and other goods offered for sale are recorded to have been displayed on the tombstones. The town was put to the torch during Owain Glyndwr 's march through the Tywi Valley in July 1403. Nearby Carreg Cennen Castle was besieged by Yorkist forces in 1461 during the Wars of the Roses and partially demolished. At the Reformation,
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1024-670: Was one of the founding clubs of the Welsh Rugby Union . The town is also home to Llandeilo Town AFC, an association football club currently playing in the Carmarthenshire League . Llandeilo Golf Club (now defunct) was founded in 1908/9. The club and course disappeared in the late 1960s. The town also has a thriving cricket club that fields a male, female and junior teams. The town hosted a celebrity football event that took place between 2015 and 2017 to help raise funds for Ty Hafan children's hospice. Celebrities who took part in
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