For the village of Llwyncelyn located off the A487

A487 road

The A487 is a trunk road in Wales, running up the western side of the country from Haverfordwest in the south to Bangor in the north.It starts at Merlin's Bridge near Haverfordwest, from where it travels north west to St David's, then switches back north east through Fishguard, Cardigan, Aberaeron,...

 near Ffos-y-ffin, refer to - Llwyncelyn, Ceredigion.

Llwyncelyn (Hollybush) is a district of Porth

Porth

Porth is a town and a community in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales, lying in the Rhondda Valley and is regarded as the gateway to the Rhondda Fawr and Rhondda Fach valleys because both valleys meet at Porth...

, Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Consisting of five long terraces and two modern housing developments, Llwyncelyn is the home of one shop and a parish church

Parish church

A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....

, St. Luke's Church.

Llwyncelyn is also where Porth Harlequins RFC

Porth Harlequins RFC

Porth Harlequins Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in Porth in the Rhondda Valley. Porth RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Cardiff Blues....

 play their home rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 matches.

The television program High Hopes

High Hopes (TV series)

High Hopes is a sitcom made in Wales, produced and directed by Gareth Gwenlan for BBC Wales and is set in a fictional area of the South Wales Valleys called Cwm-Pen-Ôl...

, created by BBC Wales

BBC Wales

BBC Cymru Wales is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. Based at Broadcasting House in the Llandaff area of Cardiff, it directly employs over 1200 people, and produces a broad range of television, radio and online services in both the Welsh and English languages.Outside...

, often contains scenes filmed inside the Nythbran Stores local shop situated near the middle of Nythbran Terrace (often referred to as "the front street" as it is the foremost of three parallel terraces in Llwyncelyn).

Nearby Nyth-Brân Farm was the home of legendary athlete Guto Nyth Brân

Guto Nyth Brân

Griffith Morgan , who was known better by his Welsh name, Guto Nyth Brân was an athlete. Many of Guto's running feats have since become merged with legend, and were disseminated by poets and authors such as I.D...

.

External links

• St. Luke's Church