st cloves, wales.

[NORMANTHEDOG]

does anybody out there know where it is.

[goosing]

are you sure you've got the name right? any idea which area?

[NORMANTHEDOG]

no idea,thats why in asking.

[goosing]

can't find it, sorry. nearest I can think of is st clears in camarthen.

[SteveD]

Maybe you could try ploughing through this:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/geogdata/ngw/plac es.htm

[auntiebertie]

Isn't this the 'fake' town they have set up trying to tempt poeple to go there on a tourism website??? I am sure there was something on the BBC news a few weeks back.

[NORMANTHEDOG]

dont be stupid,its where one of my ancestors was born.

[ewaef]

the place on the news was in cornwall, lmao! never heard of a st cloves tho! are you sure its in wales?!?

[ewaef]

Which wales do you mean? there are about 10-14 places all over the world called wales

[goosing]

any other clues - parish name maybe

[goosing]

scholes, wales, south yorkshire or lots of wales in the usa

[nickmo]

Hi N - could be a mis-written English version of Llaneilfyw (English is: 'St. Elvis' - honestly - really is!) if its a birth certificate you have to refer to - English naming for Welsh, Scottish, Irish and other regional place names is fairly common especially if the name was spoken rather than given in writing...

Llaneilfyw is in Pembrokeshire.

Boring things you learn as you go through life but it might help your quest!- 'LLan' is a Welsh name place for a field or enclosure- usually after a saints name. As Obi Wan says, 'Find St Cloves, Luke, find the St Cloves.....' and you might find the location...

And by the way the Catholic Forum list of saints doesn't have a St Cloves - nearest name I guess is St. Cloud - founded a town in France called Saint Cloud, near Paris...so lokks like you do want St Clears after all in Wales...