Mynydd-y-Garreg

Mynydd-y-garreg or Mynyddygarreg ('The mountain of the stone') is a village in the county of Carmarthenshire, West Wales, bordering the historical town of Kidwelly.

Mynydd-y-garreg
St Teilo's Church, Mynyddygarreg
OS grid reference	SN427081
Community	Kidwelly
Principal area	Carmarthenshire
Ceremonial county	Dyfed
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	Llanelli
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament	Llanelli

Governance

Mynydd-y-Garreg is in the Kidwelly community and shares a Mayor and an elected council, Kidwelly Town Council.

Transport

By road, the village lies 1 km from the A484, which connects Llanelli and Carmarthen. By rail Kidwelly railway station lies 4 km away by road. This provides a two-hourly daytime service on Mondays to Saturdays.

A bus service operates that connects to bus routes running through Kidwelly, which link passengers to Llanelli, Carmarthen, Swansea and other places.

Amenities

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 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. However, the pub closed in 2017.[6][7]

Notable residents

• The Presbyterian minister, author and noted historian Tom Beynon (1886–1961), was born and grew up in Mynydd-y-Garreg.[8]
• The village was home to the Welsh national rugby union legend Ray Gravell (1951–2007). A road there was named after him,[9] and after his death a sculpture erected in his honour at the Llanelli Scarlets' stadium Parc y Scarlets, where it stands on a plinth of stone quarried from the village.[10]

Fossil remains

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]

References

1. School site in Welsh and English. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
2. Mobile library service. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
3. Parish site. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
4. History of Wales site. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
5. Team page. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 20 August 2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
7. Pub entry. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
8. Welsh Biography. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
9. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/3097415.stm
10. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/08/16/scarlets-stadium-tribute-to-ray-91466-24450780/
11. "MAGIC Map Application". DEFRA MAGIC Map. DEFRA.
12. "Site of Special Scientific Interest, Carmarthenshire, Smarts Quarry" (PDF). Natural Resources Wales.

External links

• Photographs of Mynydd-y-Garreg and surrounding area from the www.geograph.org.uk site