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Cwmamman, the old name for the location of Glanamman and Garnant, was revived for the modern urban community covering the two villages, which now have much smaller populations than in their heyday at the turn of the 20th century.
Cwmamman (later Welsh version: Cwmaman), is an area of the Amman Valley which is comprised of the villages of Garnant and Glanamman in the county of Carmarthenshire. The modern semi-rural landscape is the legacy of what was once a remote sparsely populated agricultural area which underwent a dramatic industrial revolution, centred around coal ...
Glanamman and Garnant form an area traditionally known as Cwmamman. Sited in the Amman Valley, Carmarthenshire, Cwmamman lies approximately four miles east of what was once Cross Inn Coach House. Cross Inn became the town of Ammanford in 1880.
This site intends to focus mainly on the history of Glanamman and Garnant, which were once one village known as Cwmamman, although some items of interest from other areas will be included.
At Christchurch, Garnant, is a headstone for Evan Nathaniel, a 68 year old man from Alltwen, but who was described as having "no fixed abode". He was killed at the railway Crossing near Glanamman Station, on 4th February, 1905.
Cwmamman is a community in Carmarthenshire, about 12 miles north of Swansea in southwest Wales. Literally meaning "Amman valley", it takes its name from the River Amman which runs through the area. Cwmamman was the original name of the valley.
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Garnant is a mining village in the valley of the River Amman in Carmarthenshire, Wales, north of Swansea. Like the neighbouring village of Glanamman it experienced a coal-mining boom in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the last big colliery closed in 1936 and coal has been extracted fitfully since then. Overview.
