Cwmllynfell

• Country — Wales • Official Name — Cwmllynfell • Population — 1,172 • Population Ref — (2011 census) • Unitary Wales — Neath Port Talbot • Lieutenancy Wales — West Glamorgan • Constituency Westminster — Neath • Constituency Welsh Assembly — Neath • Post Town — SWANSEA • Postcode District — SA9 • Postcode Area — SA • Dial Code — 01639 • Os Grid Reference — SN747127 • Councillor1 — Hugh Jones • Party1 — Plaid Cymru

Cwmllynfell has its own local rugby union team - Cwmllynfell RFC. Also, a bilingual primary school, supermarket, post office, village hall, church and chapels. Nearby there is the Black Mountain which supplies views to the village.

The electoral ward consists of some or all of the following areas: Blaen-nant, Bryn-Melyn, Celliwarog, Cwmllynfell, Rhiw-fawr in the parliamentary constituency of Neath. Cwmllynfell is bounded by the wards of Quarter Bach of Carmarthenshire to the northeast; Cwmtwrch of Powys to the east; Ystalyfera to the southeast; Pontardawe to the southwest; Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen to the west and Lower Brynamman to the northwest. In the 2017 local council elections the results were: • Candidate — Party — Votes — Status • |Hugh Jones — Plaid Cymru — 283 — Plaid Cymru gain • |Kris Lloyd — Labour — 194 In the 2012 local council elections the turn out was 49.78%. The results were: • Candidate — Party — Votes — Status • |Clifford Richards — Labour — 348 — Labour hold • |David James — Plaid Cymru — 110

At 14:31 on 17 February 2018 a field 2¼ miles south-southwest of the village near Gwrhyd Chapel was the epicentre of a 4.6 magnitude earthquake, the largest in the British Isles since 2008. The quake was felt as far away as Blackpool.