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LLANELLY , a See also:market See also:town, See also:urban See also:district, and seaport of See also:Carmarthenshire, See also:Wales, situated on the See also:north See also:shore of the broad See also:estuary of the See also:river Loughor (Llwchwr), known as Burry river, which forms an inlet of See also:Carmarthen See also:Bay. Pop. (Igor) 25,617. Llanelly is a station on the See also:South Wales See also:section of the See also:Great Western railway. ' The town is wholly of See also:modern See also:appearance. The See also:mother-See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Elliw, or Elli (whence the town derives its name) has been practically rebuilt (1go6), but it retains its 13th-See also:century See also:tower and other See also:ancient features of the See also:original fabric. Its situation on a broad estuary and its central position with regard to a neighbourhood See also:rich in See also:coal, See also:iron and See also:limestone, have combined to make Llanelly one of the many important See also:industrial towns of South Wales. See also:Anthracite and See also:steam-coal from the collieries of the See also:coast and along the Loughor Valley are exported from the extensive docks; and there are also large See also:works for the smelting of See also:copper and the manufacture of See also:tin plates.
Llanelly, though an ancient See also:parish and a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough by See also:prescription under a portreeve and burgesses in the old lordship of See also:Kidwelly, remained insignificant until the industrial development in South Wales during the loth century. In 18io the combined See also:population of Llanelly, with its four subsidiary hamlets
of See also:Berwick, Glyn, Hencoed and Westowe, only amounted to 2972; in 1840 the inhabitants of the borough See also:hamlet alone had risen to 4173. Llanelly is now the most populous town in Wales outside the confines of See also:Glamorganshire. In 1832 Llanelly was added as a contributory borough to the Carmarthen See also:parliamentary district.
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