| Country: | Wales |
| Constituency Welsh Assembly: | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire |
| Official Name: | Blaen-y-Coed |
| Unitary Wales: | Carmarthenshire |
| Population Ref: | See Carmarthen |
| Lieutenancy Wales: | Carmarthenshire |
| Constituency Westminster: | Caerfyrddin |
| Post Town: | Carmarthen |
| Postcode District: | SA33 |
| Postcode Area: | SA |
| Dial Code: | 01267 |
| Os Grid Reference: | SN348271 |
| Coordinates: | 51.9158°N -4.4028°W |
| Community Wales: | Cynwyl Elfed |
Blaenycoed, or Blaen-y-coed is a village situated between Carmarthen and Newcastle Emlyn, Wales, of 17 houses, a Welsh Independents chapel, a postbox and small farms. Blaen-y-coed literally translates to mean "Head-of-the-wood.". Woodland Rise is a camping and caravanning site in the village.[1]
Howell Elvet Lewis, the Independent minister, hymn-writer, poet, known as Elfed, was born in 1860. The house where he was born, Y Gangell, is near Blaenycoed and contains a small exhibition of his life. His ashes were also scattered in Blaenycoed chapel graveyard.