Cenarth
Sign in to saveCenarth () is a village, parish and community in Carmarthenshire, on the border between Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, and close to the border with Pembrokeshire, Wales. It stands on the banks of the River Teifi, east of Cardigan and west of Newcastle Emlyn, and features the Cenarth Falls, a popular visitor attraction, and several other listed structures including an 18th-century corn mill incorporating the National Coracle Centre.
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Place details
- Locality
- Cenarth
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- Wales
- UK place.constituency_welsh_assembly
- Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
- UK place.static_image_name
- CenarthWestWales.jpg
- UK place.static_image_width
- 200
- UK place.static_image_caption
- View of River Teifi downstream (westwards) from Cenarth Bridge
- UK place.official_name
- Cenarth
- UK place.community_wales
- Cenarth
- UK place.unitary_wales
- Carmarthenshire
- UK place.lieutenancy_wales
- Dyfed
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Caerfyrddin
- UK place.population
- 1,030
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.post_town
- NEWCASTLE EMLYN
- UK place.postcode_district
- SA38
- UK place.postcode_area
- SA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01239
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SN268416
- UK place.module
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Features
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Cenarth () is a village, parish and community in Carmarthenshire, on the border between Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, and close to the border with Pembrokeshire, Wales. It stands on the banks of the River Teifi, east of Cardigan and west of Newcastle Emlyn, and features the Cenarth Falls, a popular visitor attraction, and several other listed structures including an 18th-century corn mill incorporating the National Coracle Centre.
== History and governance == The ancient parish extended south of the river, and included the town of Newcastle Emlyn. In 1934, it annexed the adjoining parish of East Cilrhedyn, and the enlarged parish corresponds with the modern community, which had a population of 1,022 in the 2001 census. With the community of Newcastle Emlyn, it makes up the Carmarthenshire electoral ward of Cenarth, which had a population of 1,995 in 2001, with 60 per cent Welsh language speakers. The ancient parish (less Newcastle Emlyn) had an area of . Its census populations were: 672 (1801); 897 (1851); 638 (1901). The percentage of Welsh-speakers was 98 (1891); 96 (1931).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cenarth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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