Llannon, Carmarthenshire, Wales Genealogy

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A guide to genealogy in Llannon, with information on where to find birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial records; census records; wills; cemeteries; maps; etc.

Llannon is a village, community and ecclesiastical parish in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The community also contains the villages of Tumble and Cross Hands.

Before 1974 the village was in the historic county of Carmarthenshire and, between 1974 and 1996 in the County of Dyfed. In 1996 it became part of the modern county of Carmarthenshire.

History
LLANNON (LLAN-NON), a parish, in the union of LLANELLY, lower division of the hundred of CARNAWLLON, county of CARMARTHEN, SOUTH WALES, 6 miles (N. by E.) from Carmarthen. It extends six miles in length from north to south, and 4 1/2 in breadth from east to west; and comprises by admeasurement, made in the year 1807, 11,466 a. 1 r. 13 p., of which 2507 are in the hamlet of Blaenau, 3011 in that of Glynn, 3130 in that of Goytre, and 2000 in that of Ismorlais. The lands, with the exception of a comparatively small portion, consisting of part of the Great Mountain, the Little Mountain, and Mynydd Sylvan, are mostly inclosed, and in a good state of cultivation; the soil is chiefly a clayey loam, and the principal produce, corn, hay, and butter, for the latter of which it is much celebrated; coal mines are in operation, and the smelting of iron-ore by the use of anthracite coal has lately been commenced. There is here no manor, the parish being situated within the lordship of Kidwelly. The great turnpike-road fpom Swansea to Carmarthen intersects the parish. The tram-road from the works in the Great Mountain is continued through the parish to the port of Llanelly. The church, dedicated to St. Non, was rebuilt in 1841 in the early English style. A National school-house was erected in 1841; and there are four Sunday schools. There are places of worship for Independents and Calvinistic Methodists.

For more information on Llannon see Llannon at Genuki.

Maps and Gazetteers

 * Llannon at Vision of Britain.