Penceilogi

Penceilogi (standard Welsh: Penceiliogi^[1] or historically Pen-ceiliogi)^[2] is a small village on the northern outskirts of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is bordered by Bryn to the east, Dafen to the north-west, Pemberton to the west and Cwmcarnhywel to the south.^[2] Administratively it lies within the community of Llanelli Rural and occupies the spur between the Dafen and Cwm Carnhywel valleys, its streets stepping up from about 40 m to 90 m above sea level on the flanks of Bryn hill. The built-up area merges westwards into Pemberton and eastwards into Bryn, while minor lanes give south-facing views towards the Burry Inlet. Llanelli Rural as a whole recorded 23,058 residents at the 2021 census, making it the most populous rural community in Wales and the largest population cluster outside the town's historic borough limits.^[3]

Penceilogi
Village
Penceilogi Location within Carmarthenshire
Principal area	Carmarthenshire
Country	Wales
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Dyfed-Powys
Fire	Mid and West Wales
Ambulance	Welsh
List of places UK Wales Carmarthenshire 51.686°N 4.124°W / 51.686; -4.124

The modern settlement is almost entirely twentieth- and twenty-first-century housing. Early expansion came with inter-war council cottages on Gors Fach and Bryncoch Road, but the decisive change was the post-2000 allocation of several large green-field sites in the county's Local Development Plan. A 14.5-acre parcel at Llys y Bryn (site GA2/h56) was reserved for up to 145 dwellings,^[4] while the adjacent plateau at Y Waun secured outline permission in 2013 for 26 bungalows and, in 2021, for a mixed scheme of up to 202 homes with landscaped open space and sustainable-drainage features.^[5] The council's 2024 evidence to the revised LDP notes that the Y Waun project will be accessed off Nant-y-Gro, is within walking distance of frequent bus routes 110/111 to Swansea and Llanelli town centre, and is expected to deliver the policy requirement of twenty-five per cent affordable units.^[5]

Local services remain limited. Primary education is provided a little under 1 km east at Bryn C.P. School on Gelli Road; an Estyn monitoring visit in October 2021 judged the school to have made "sufficient progress" and removed it from special-measures status.^[6] Small convenience shops cluster on the Bryn–Penceilogi ridge, but most residents rely on the retail park and railway station at Bynea or the shopping streets of central Llanelli 3 km to the south-west. Footpaths and cycle routes link the estate roads to the wooded valley of Nant Cwm-y-Glo, now designated informal open space within the wider Cwm y Nant strategic growth zone.^[5]