Llanedi

{{Short description|Village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales}}

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{{Infobox UK place

| type = Village and community

| country = Wales

| coordinates = {{Coord|51|44|54|N|4|03|04.00|W|display=title}}

| unitary_wales = Carmarthenshire

| module= 240px
Map of the community

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Llanedi ({{pronunciation|Llanedi.ogg|Welsh pronunciation|help=no}}) is a village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales. Once the name of a parish, Llanedi is now a community taking in the hamlet of Llanedi and the villages of Hendy, Fforest (suburbs of Pontarddulais) and Tycroes. The community population taken at the 2011 census was 5,664.{{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125848&c=SA4+0YR&d=16&e=62&g=6492193&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1429018949860&enc=1|title=Community population 2011 |accessdate=14 April 2015}} The community is located between Ammanford and Llanelli.{{cite book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| editor3-first=Baines |editor3-last=Menna|editor4-first=Peredur I. |editor4-last=Lynch|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff|page=482 |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}}

The community is bordered by the communities of: Llangennech; Llannon; Llandybie; Ammanford; and Betws, all being in Carmarthenshire, and by: Mawr; Pontarddulais; and Grovesend and Waungron, all in the City and County of Swansea.{{cite web |url=https://mapit.mysociety.org/area/64629/touches.html?type=CPC |title=Areas touching Llanedi Community |website=MapIt |accessdate=26 March 2021 }}

The name of the parish church, St Edith's, is thought to have the same origin as the name of the village. There are no apparent traces of the original medieval church and substantial rebuilding took place in 1860, Richard Kyrke Penson being the architect.{{Coflein|num=309910|desc=St Edi's Church, Llanedy|access-date=17 September 2019}}