Llanwinio

Ainon Baptist Chapel, Gellywen. The baptismal tank for the chapel (just visible at bottom left) is fed directly from the stream which flows through the graveyard

Llanwinio is a community located in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is divided into two sections-the Eastern Division and the Western Division. The population is 1035; 422 in the Eastern and 613 in the Western Division.[1] The population recorded at the 2011 Census was 448 only.[2]

Llanwinio is 2.7 miles (4.3 km) north of the hamlet of Gellywen, home of Ainon Baptist Church, built in 1828 and re-built in 1880. [3]

Notable people

The Baptist minister, author and hymn-writer Nathaniel Williams was born in Llanwinio in 1656 or 1657.[4]

William Evans (Wil Ifan), bard

References

  1. ↑ http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CMN/Llanwinio/index.html
  2. ↑ "Community population 2011". Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "The Churches of Britain and Ireland: Carmarthenshire" at www.churches-uk-ireland.org
  4. ↑ Bowen, David James (2007). "Williams, Nathaniel (1656/7–1679), author". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 March 2009.

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Coordinates: 51°55′N 4°32′W / 51.917°N 4.533°W