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Kidwelly

town and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
Place Town Q3395358

Facts

12 properties

Designation

Instance of
town, community[4]
Heritage designation
National Monument of Wales[13]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.736°, -4.307°[7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Carmarthenshire[2]
Postal code
SA17[5]
More facts +6
Official website
www.kidwelly.gov.uk[8]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12]
Historic county
Carmarthenshire[16]
OS grid reference
SN407067[6]
Official name
Cydweli, Cydweli[14][15]
Population
3.5k (3.3k–3.7k, n=3)[9][10][11]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 3,692 · 3,289 · 3,523 GeoNames 2,782 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
🏷️ Also known as
en Kidwelly fa کیدولی ja キッドウェリー ja キドウェリー zh 基德韋利 zh-hans 基德韦利
🔖 Identifiers · 30
VIAF cluster ID
158279543
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n80148080
GND ID
4228333-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Approach to Kidwelly Castle - geograph.org.uk - 1155131.jpg ↗
BBC News topic ID
c279600zg55t
BBC Things ID
5c3670af-5d3f-40eb-8bbd-8c641af6485f
Coflein ID
33064
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Wales/Carmarthenshire/Kidwelly/
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
3b7d0a8d-1f53-49e5-9617-c37886c782d5
FactGrid item ID
ES
Freebase ID
/m/02z0j6
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2599907
Show all 30 identifiers +18
GSS code (2011)
W04000506
GeoNames ID
2645720, 7292352
J9U entity ID
987007562061005171
MusicBrainz area ID
103ecc2b-db69-4a93-aea3-0773e642ec46
National Library of Wales Authority ID
kidwelly-15, kidwelly-wales-lordship-2
OpenStreetMap relation ID
11160549
SNARC ID
Bundesautobahn 4
TOID
7000000000023766, 4000000074566877
TermCymru ID
169449097
Topic's main category
Category:Kidwelly
UN/LOCODE
GBS3R
Vision of Britain place ID
262
Vision of Britain unit ID
10149496, 10285016
WOEID
24914
Who's on First ID
101852963, 404437249
Wikishire article ID
Kidwelly
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJcGmQqHHWqRChcFrhtYfq
Yale LUX ID
place/939cdd59-96dd-46f1-81c8-11636acb3026
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/London 2026-09-26 P/PPLA3 · GB GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 3
Kidwelly Castle, Kidwelly railway station, St Mary’s Church (Kidwelly)
Instance of 2
town, community
Located in this place 2
Kidwelly Castle, St Mary’s Church (Kidwelly)
People born here 2
Ray Gravell, John Davies
Country 1
United Kingdom
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
FactGrid item ID 1
ES
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Carmarthenshire
Named after 1
Kidwelly railway station
People who died here 1
John Davies
Residents 1
Ray Gravell
SNARC ID 1
Bundesautobahn 4
← Place of burial 1
John Davies
← Twinned administrative body 1
Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer
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Summary

Kidwelly is a town[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Kidwelly include Kidwelly railway station[17], a railway station[18], in United Kingdom[19].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Kidwelly include Kidwelly railway station[17], a railway station[18], in United Kingdom[19].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . List of Standardised Welsh Place-names. gov.wales. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . List of Standardised Welsh Place-names. comisiynyddygymraeg.cymru. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [18] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Carmarthenshire
    Described by source → Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    GND ID → 4228333-4
    Instance of → town, community
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #56529: Import GNDs from dewiki"
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