| Name | Cwmaman |
| Alt names | Cwmamman | source: Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72 | | Cwmamman | source: Google Earth |
| Type | Chapelry, Urban district |
| Coordinates | 51.853°N 3.984°W |
| Located in | Carmarthenshire, Wales |
| Also located in | Dyfed, Wales (1974 - 1996) |
- source: Family History Library Catalog
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NOTE: There is another place named Cwmaman in Glamorgan, Wales. Both places were collieries and have had populations of over 1,000 at some point in the past 150 years.
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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Cwmaman, Carmarthenshire from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "CWMAMMAN, a village in Llandeilo-fawr parish, and a chapelry in Llandeilo-fawr, Llandebie, Bettws, Llangadock, and Llanguick parishes, Carmarthen[shire]. The village stands on the Pontamman river and the Garnant branch of the Llanelly and Vale of Towy railway, near Garnant [railway] station, under the Black mountains, 16½ miles NE by N of Llanelly; and it has a post office under Llanelly, and a market-house. The chapelry was constituted in 1843. Population: 4,353. Houses: 873. The scenery is alpine and picturesque. Anthracite coal is sent by railway for shipment at Llanelly. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St. Davids. Value: £150. Patron: the Bishop of St. Davids. The church is a neat edifice of 1841."
Cwmaman was an urban district from 1894 until 1974.
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