Felindre

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Felindre (English: Velindre) is a rural village in south Wales. The village can be found in the far north of Swansea, in the electoral ward of Mawr.

The nearby Lower Lliw Reservoirs are a popular venue for walking and fishing. The water mill in the village was working until the late 1960's, there was also an abbatior and a post office in the village. It also had three shops, and two mobile shops which used to come around the village twice a week. Again this was in the late 60's and 70's. The school in the village is welsh speaking. There is also a public house in the village, the shepards arms.^[1]

[edit] Felindre works site

In 1956, The Steel Company of Wales opened a tinplate works at Velindre to complement new facilities at Trostre and Port Talbot. By 1970, the Velindre works employed 2,500 people and produced 490,000 tonnes per annum, but it declined in the 1980s and closed in 1989.^[2] The grounds of the former steelworks played host to the National Eisteddfod 2006.

The works site, which is situated next to the M4 Motorway just of Junction 46, is now a regeneration site with 200 acres of land being redeveloped by the Welsh Assembly Government and the City and County of Swansea council.^[3]

The site has been used of late for World Rally Championship to service the rally cars whilst they compete in the Welsh Rally, a round of the (WRC) World Rally Championship. For 2007 the site moved to the Swansea SA1 area.