Population 4,964 (2011 census) Community Llangennech Country Wales Local time Thursday 11:23 AM Ceremonial county Dyfed UK parliament constituency Llanelli | OS grid reference SN560015 Principal area Carmarthenshire Sovereign state United Kingdom Dialling code 01554 Post town Llanelli | |
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Llangennech is a village in the area of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, which covers an area of 1,222 hectares (4.72 sq mi).
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Map of Llangennech, UK
It is governed by Carmarthenshire County Council and Llanelli Rural council. It falls in the Llanelli parliamentary constituency. Llangennech is also the name of an electoral ward coterminous with the village and has its own community council. It was a coal mining community, with several local collieries mining steam coal. There is also a large Labour tradition in the village originating with the mine workers. There was a large Royal Navy depot in the village, which was closed in Ministry of Defence restructuring.
Llangennech has a strong rugby union team, Llangennech RFC, that feed many players into Llanelli RFC and then on to the Llanelli Scarlets regional rugby union team.
The town is served by Llangennech railway station on the Heart of Wales Line with trains to Swansea to the south and Shrewsbury to the north.
The community is bordered by the communities of Llanelli Rural, Llannon, and Llanedi, all in Carmarthenshire; and by Grovesend and Waungron and Gorseinon in the City and County of Swansea.
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Demographics
Llangennech community's population was 4,964, according to the 2011 census; an increase of 10.07% since the 4,510 people noted in 2001.
The 2011 census showed 39.9% of the population could speak Welsh, a fall from 46.8% in 2001.