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Village in Carmarthenshire, Wales From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mynydd-y-Garreg or Mynyddygarreg ("The mountain of the stone") is a village in the county of Carmarthenshire, West Wales. It borders the historic town of Kidwelly.
Mynydd-y-garreg | |
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St Teilo's Church, Mynyddygarreg | |
OS grid reference | SN427081 |
Community | |
Principal area | |
Preserved county | |
Country | Wales |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | KIDWELLY |
Postcode district | SA17 |
Dialling code | 01554 |
Police | Dyfed-Powys |
Fire | Mid and West Wales |
Ambulance | Welsh |
UK Parliament | |
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
Mynydd-y-Garreg is in the Kidwelly community and shares with it a mayor and an elected council, Kidwelly Town Council.
By road, the village lies 1 km from the A484, which connects Llanelli and Carmarthen. For rail travel, Kidwelly railway station lies 4 km (2.5 miles) away by road. It provides a two-hourly daytime service on Mondays to Saturdays. Some trains reach as far as London and Manchester.
Bus services through Kidwelly provide links to Llanelli, Carmarthen, Swansea and other places.
The village has a Welsh-medium primary school, Ysgol Mynydd-y-Garreg School.[1]
The county mobile library service visits the village every Wednesday between 11.30 and 12.30.[2]
The Bro Cydweli LMA group parish of the Church in Wales provides a bilingual afternoon service on the first and third Sundays of the month at St Teilo's Church, Mynyddygarreg.[3] Saint Teilo (c. 500 – 9 c. 560) was a 6th-century British monk and early Welsh saint from Pembrokeshire.[4]
The village has a local rugby union team called Mynydd-y-Garreg RFC. It offers training facilities and a playing field with a clubhouse.[5]
The public house in the village, the Prince of Wales, had been recognised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide. Nonetheless, it had to close in 2017.[6][7]
Smarts Quarry, half a mile to the east of the village, is a 2.6 ha Site of Special Scientific Interest notable for its quartzite fossil remains.[11][12]
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