This village is situated between Trichrug and the western slopes of the Black Mountain, to the west of the A4069 road about halfway between Llangadog and Brynamman.

The village comprises a scattered collection of mostly nineteenth and twentieth-century housing that developed around several chapels.

[2] The village has a grade-two listed phone box now used as an information centre and a modern community hall built in 2001.

[5] The 1870-72 Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gwynfe chapelry as:[6] Gwynfe, a chapelry in Llangadock parish, Carmarthen; under the Black Mountain, and near the Mid Wales railway, in the neighbourhood of Llangadock.

Patron, the Vicar of Llangadock-Vawr.The village previously had a number of services that are no longer present including 2 pubs, a school, 2 smithies, a corn mill and a woollen factory.