Felinfoel
| Felinfoel Welsh: Felin-foel | |
| Carmarthenshire | |
|---|---|
 The Thomas Arms, Felinfoel | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SN519024 |
| Location: | 51°42’3"N, 4°8’40"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Llanelli |
| Postcode: | SA14-15 |
| Dialling code: | 01554 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Carmarthenshire |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Llanelli |
Felinfoel is a small village on the River Lliedi by the northern edge of Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, and a place with a population of about 2,000.
Felinfoel has good links with the M4 motorway which leads to Swansea and Cardiff to the east and Carmarthen and Pembrokeshire in the west.
About the village
Felinfoel has a butcher's, a bakery, a fish and chip shop, locally produced real ale from the historic Felinfoel Brewery and shop, a Co-op supermarket and a computer shop within the village.
It is a small village with a parish church and Nonconformist chapel. The Diplomat Hotel and Chasens health spa also fall within the village's borders. The village has a King George V Playing Field.
To the north of the village and on the River Lliedi is a picturesque double reservoir which gives the Swiss Valley area its name.
Churches
Felinfoel's main Baptist chapel, Adulam, plays a significant role in the history of the Bptist movement, as it is on the site of Tŷ Newydd, said by some to be the oldest Baptist settlement in Wales. Previously, the Baptists held their meetings in secret in Ogof Goetre Wen on the Morlais River some four miles away. Adulam's baptismal pool on the River Lleidi was in use for total immersions until the 1970s. The congregation would sit on the railway sleeper benches, and on the bridge over the river, and sing as the person was raised from the water.
The Church in Wales church in the village is Holy Trinity, in the Parish of Dafen and Felinfoel.[1]
Brewery
The Felinfoel Brewery, home of Double Dragon Ale, is the oldest in Wales. It was the first brewery outside the United States to sell beer in cans.[2]
Outside links
- Llanelli History
- Adulam Chapel
- Felinfoel Brewery
- Llanelli Community Heritage Felinfoel Brewery and the first British beer cans
- Pictures of Felinfoel and the area on Geograph.co.uk
References
- ↑ Parish of Dafen and Felinfoel
- ↑ "Felinfoel Brewery beer can". bbc.co.uk. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/mLpYbeiaRfi6TI5vusaOMw. Retrieved 23 December 2012.
