Cilymaenllwyd is a community

Civil parish

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 on the extreme northwest of Carmarthenshire

Carmarthenshire

Carmarthenshire is a unitary authority in the south west of Wales and one of thirteen historic counties. It is the 3rd largest in Wales. Its three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford...

 in West Wales

West Wales

West Wales is the western area of Wales.Some definitions of West Wales include only Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, an area which historically comprised the Welsh principality of Deheubarth., an area called "South West Wales" in the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics....

. It lies about 40 km west of Carmarthen

Carmarthen

Carmarthen is a community in, and the county town of, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is sited on the River Towy north of its mouth at Carmarthen Bay. In 2001, the population was 14,648....

, 20 km southeast of Fishguard

Fishguard

Fishguard is a coastal town in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales, with a population of 3,300 . The community of Fishguard and Goodwick had a population of 5043 at the 2001 census....

 and 30 km northwest of Haverfordwest

Haverfordwest

Haverfordwest is the county town of Pembrokeshire, Wales and serves as the County's principal commercial and administrative centre. Haverfordwest is the most populous urban area in Pembrokeshire, with a population of 13,367 in 2001; though its community boundaries make it the second most populous...

.

History & Amenities

Cilymaenllwyd has an area of 2628 hectare

Hectare

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s and a population

Population

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 of 725. The western edge of the community borders Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire

Pembrokeshire is a county in the south west of Wales. It borders Carmarthenshire to the east and Ceredigion to the north east. The county town is Haverfordwest where Pembrokeshire County Council is headquartered....

. The Pembrokeshire River Tâf

River Tâf

The River Tâf is a river that rises in the Preseli Hills of North Pembrokeshire, West Wales, near the village of Crymych and is around 50 km long....

 forms the eastern boundary. The area is a plateau being part of the foothills of the Preseli Mountains rising to an altitude of 248 metres. But it is dissected by deep valleys of the Tâf and tributaries. The principal commerce of the parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 is agriculture

Agriculture

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. On 13 May 1839, the tollgate at Efailwen, within Cilymaenllwyd, was the first turnpike to be attacked in what would later become the Rebecca Riots

Rebecca Riots

The Rebecca Riots took place between 1839 and 1843 in South and Mid Wales. They were a series of protests undertaken by local farmers and agricultural workers in response to perceived unfair taxation. The rioters, often men dressed as women, took their actions against toll-gates, as they were...

, an uprising by poor farmers to abolish what they believed were unfair taxations.

Historically it was part of Derllys Hundred. Very few maps mark the name Cilymaenllwyd but place names which do appear are:

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	Efailwen
	Glandy Cross
	Login
	Pant-y-Caws

Worship

Places of worship in the community are:

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	?	Parish church, now used as a clothing factory
	1828	Calfaria Particular Baptist Chapel, Login
	1836	Nebo Independent Congregational church Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....  Chapel, Efailwen / Eglwyswen
	1858	Cwm-miles Independent Chapel, Cwm-miles

Login

The hamlet

Hamlet (place)

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 of Login lies in the valley and sits on both sides of the River Tâf. The name Login may have come from the old Welsh language

Welsh language

Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...

 word halogyn meaning a dirty pool or stream. The Whitland & Cardigan Railway

Whitland & Cardigan Railway

The Whitland & Cardigan Railway was a fourteen and a half mile long Great Western Railway built branch railway line that ran between on the West Wales Line to via nine intermediate stations, , , , , , , , , and .-History:...

came up the valley and there was a station in Login.