Glanaman is a small town

Town

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 lying on the River Amman in 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...

, Wales

Wales

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. It has a population of around 2,000 people. Glanaman has long been a stronghold of the Welsh language: with 81% of its population able to speak the language, village life is very largely conducted in Welsh.

Glanaman is twinned

Town twinning

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 with the village of Pouldergat

Pouldergat

Pouldergat is a commune in the Finistère department in Bretagne in northwestern France.-International relations:Pouldergat is twinned with the village of Glanamman, in Wales.-Breton language:...

, in Brittany

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History

Glanaman's history is quite rich be it the coal industry or the agricultural industry. The Gelli Fanwen Farm, along with many others, used to produce milk but now sadly due to cost of producing milk they moved on to beef farming and contracting. They used to run a smithy from where they supplied many in Carmarthenshire with bicycles and horse shoes.

Politics

David Michael Jenkins is the County Councillor for Glanaman, he is a member of Plaid Cymru.

Rhodri Glyn Thomas (Plaid Cymru

Plaid Cymru

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) currently represents Glanaman at the Welsh Assembly in the constituency of Carmarthen East and Dinefwr

Carmarthen East and Dinefwr (Assembly constituency)

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. They had a large majority of 8,000 votes over Labour, beating Kevin Madge in the Welsh Assembly Elections 2007

National Assembly for Wales election, 2007

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Education

Glanaman used to have a primary school which opened in 1884 and closed in 2005 making it 121 years of age. Glanaman was a category A school making it a Welsh medium school with most subjects taught through the medium of Welsh. The new school is located in the Twyn which is north of Garnant. The school is called Ysgol y Bedol Cwmaman ('School of the Horseshoe Cwmaman'). The school consists of Ysgol y Twyn, Ysgol Gynradd y Garnant and Ysgol Gynradd Glanaman. Ysgol y Bedol Cwmaman is also a Welsh medium school making it a category A.

Notable people

Those born or raised in Glanaman include:

• Ryan Davies
  Ryan Davies
  Ryan Davies was a popular Welsh entertainer of the 1960s and 1970s. He was born in the Carmarthenshire village of Glanamman in the Black Mountain, Wales, and was educated in Bangor and at the Central School of Speech and Drama. His first professional appearance was in the National Eisteddfod of...
  
  , entertainer and actor
• Tom Day
  Tom Day (rugby player)
  Tom Day was a Wales international rugby union player who played club rugby for Swansea. He was awarded 13 caps for Wales and was part of the Welsh side that won the 1931 Five Nations Championship....
  
  , Welsh rugby international
• Gerwyn Edwards
  Gerwyn Edwards
  William Gerwyn Edwards is a former Welsh cricketer. Edwards was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium pace. He was born in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire....
  
  , cricketer
• Shane Williams
  Shane Williams
  Shane Mark Williams is a Welsh international rugby union player who plays as a wing for the Ospreys and who can also play scrum-half. Williams is the record try scorer for the Wales national team and he is third on the international list of leading Rugby union Test try scorers behind Daisuke Ohata...
  
   (born in Morriston
  Morriston
  Morriston is a community in the City and County of Swansea, Wales and falls within the Morriston ward. Morriston is sometimes referred to as a distinct town , however Morriston never had a town charter, and is now part of the continuous urban area around Swansea, the centre of which lies three...
  
  , near Swansea
  Swansea
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  ), Welsh rugby international
• Sharon Morgan
  Sharon Morgan
  Sharon Morgan is a Welsh actress of stage and screen, currently based in Cardiff. She was brought up in the village of Llandyfaelog...
  
  Welsh language campaigner and Actress