page_title: Llangennech
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Llangennech / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Llangennech Station
context_page_description: Llangennech is a village and community in the area of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, which covers an area of 1,222 hectares.
  It is governed by Carmarthenshire County Council and Llanelli Rural council. It falls in the Llanelli parliamentary constituency. Llangennech is also the name of an electoral ward coterminous with the village and has its own community council. It was a coal mining community, with several local collieries mining steam coal. There is also a large Labour tradition in the village originating with the mine workers. There was a large Royal Navy depot in the village, which was closed in 2007 in Ministry of Defence restructuring.
  Llangennech has a strong rugby union team, Llangennech RFC, that feeds many players into Llanelli RFC and then on to the Llanelli Scarlets regional rugby union team.
  The town is served by Llangennech railway station on the Heart of Wales Line with trains to Swansea to the south and Shrewsbury to the north.
  The community is bordered by the communities of Llanelli Rural, Llannon, and Llanedi, all in Carmarthenshire; and by Grovesend and Waungron and Gorseinon in the City and County of Swansea.
context_section_description: Eileen Beasley, Welsh language campaigner, lived here during her and her husband's campaign for Welsh language tax bills
  Huw Edwards, BBC news presenter, lived in the village during his youth
  Hywel Teifi Edwards, Welsh historian, lecturer and author, lived in the village
  Rhys Gabe, Welsh international rugby player was born in Llangennech
caption: Llangennech Railway Station
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