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Llanfihangel-ar-Arth is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.0167°, -4.2500°.

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Llanfihangel-ar-Arth

Llanfihangel-ar-Arth in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.

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Llanfihangel-ar-Arth is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Llanfihangel-ar-Arth is a village and community in the county of Carmarthenshire, Wales. The area includes six villages: Alltwalis, Dolgran, Gwyddgrug, Llanfihangel-Ar-Arth, New Inn and Pencader. The population of the community taken at the 2011 census was 2,213.

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History

Between 1840 and 1850, there was a tollhouse in the village to collect tolls from travellers. In June 1843, one of the Rebecca Riots occurred here and the gate was destroyed by 150 people. It was a one-level building and is now a residential bungalow. The railway from Carmarthen and Lampeter travelled through Llanfihangel-ar-Arth, which later had its own station. The station closed in the 1960s and only part of the track remains. From the 1840s to 1920s, many of the village houses were used as woollen workshops when the wool industry was important in the area. As well as the church, the village has two pubs and a school that opened in 1864 but was closed in 2003. The school now acts as a…

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