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Llanboidy is a village and community in Carmarthenshire, West Wales. The community includes the village of Llanglydwen.
It is located near the border with Pembrokeshire close to the Landsker Line. The village itself is on the Welsh language speaking side.
The community is bordered by the communities of: Llanwinio; Llangynin; St Clears; Eglwyscummin; Whitland; Henllanfallteg; and Cilymaenllwyd, all being in Carmarthenshire; and by Crymych in Pembrokeshire.
Another notable church he founded is at the village of Nevern. This is approximately 20 miles north west of Llanboidy and is overlooked by Mynydd Carningli (said by some to mean Mountain of Angels).
Llanboidy then became an important drovers road route in the Middle Ages and once had four .
It has a sports and social club and a football (soccer) team. There is a village post office and the school has recently been re-built. The church graveyard holds a very precious statue, called "the Grief", by the Cardiff-born sculptor Sir William Goscombe John. It was slowly deteriorating, until it was restored and brought indoors, in order to preserve it. It was a funerary monument to the Victorian era MP Walter Rice Howell Powell. Powell was a Haverfordwest-born 1819 philanthropist who brought money and jobs to the village and his legacy can be seen at the Market Hall, Piccadilly Square and other fine buildings in the village. The seat of the Powells was the mansion of Maesgwynne, north of the village.
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