LLANGWNNOR, or LLANGYNYR, a parish in the district and county of Carmarthen; on the river Towy, near the South Wales railway, 1 mile E of Carmarthen. It contains the hamlets of Coedgain, Llandre, Velyndre, Penddailwyn, and Pencwm; and its Post town is Carmarthen. Acres, 5,795. Real property, £6,677; of which £2,000 are in mines. Pop. in 1851,1,157; in 1861,1,250. Houses, 262. The property is much subdivided. Ty-gwyn, now a farm-house, was the seat of the Scurlock family, a daughter of whom was the second wife of Sir R. Steele; and it is said to have been the place where he wrote his ''Constant Lover." The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. David's. Value, £221. * Patron, the Bishop of St. David's. The church is dedicated to St. Cynyr; stands among some fine old yewtrees, on a spot commanding a magnificent view of the Towy's valley; is a small and primitive looking edifice; contains a monument to Steele; and was recently in disrepair. Charities, £5.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))