:Faenor, Ceredigion

{{Short description|Community in Ceredigion, Wales}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = Wales

| welsh_name = Y Faenor

| official_name = Faenor

| coordinates = {{coord|52.425454|-4.035931|display=inline,title}}

| community_wales = Faenor

| unitary_wales = Ceredigion

| lieutenancy_wales = Dyfed

| constituency_westminster = Ceredigion Preseli

| constituency_welsh_assembly = Ceredigion

| post_town = ABERYSTWYTH

| postcode_district = SY23

| postcode_area = SY

| dial_code = 01970

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| os_grid_reference = SN6589

| cardiff_distance_mi = 90

| cardiff_distance = SE

| population = 2,545

| population_ref = (2011){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11123320&c=SY23+3BN&d=16&e=62&g=6491427&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1431352847900&enc=1|title=Community and ward population 2011|access-date=11 May 2015}}

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Faenor is a community and electoral ward sharing a boundary with the town of Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, Wales.{{cite web|url=https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/election-maps/gb/ |title=Election maps |publisher=Ordnance Survey| access-date=10 February 2019 }}

Faenor also has two community wards which elect 12 councillors to Faenor Community Council: One covers Waun Fawr and most of the student village Pentre Jane Morgan of Aberystwyth University, while the other covers Comins Coch, Capel Dewi and Lovesgrove.{{cite web|url=http://www.faenorcommunitycouncil.org.uk/Faenor-CC/Default.aspx |title=Welcome to the Faenor Community Council website |publisher=Faenor Community Council| access-date=10 February 2019 }}

Most of the houses in Faenor were built from the 1960s onwards to house the expanding population of Aberystwyth and its University. Pentre Jane Morgan is purpose-built student accommodation on land which used to be part of the University farm until the 1990s.

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