Editing Llantwit Major (section)

==Education and sport==
[[Image:Llantwitmajorleisurecentre.JPG|thumb|right|Llantwit Major Leisure Centre]]

The town is home to [[Llantwit Major F.C.]], a football club playing in the [[Cymru South]]. The club has enjoyed excellent success in recent years, winning Division Three in 2016/17, and Division Two in 2017/18. Manager Karl Lewis has built a successful squad of players, including Sam Snaith and [[Adam Roscrow]] who have gone on to play in the Welsh Premier League and English Football League respectively.

[[Llanilltud Fawr Comprehensive School]] is the [[secondary school]] in the town. A fire gutted the building in October 1991 and a new building was constructed.<ref>''[[South Wales Echo]]'', October 1991</ref> The school has roughly 1300 pupils and around 85 full-time staff.  Immediately adjacent is Llanilltud Fawr [[primary school]], one of four primary schools in Llantwit, the others being Eagleswell primary school, Ysgol Dewi Sant and St. Illtyd's primary school.

[[File:Llantwit Major 10K.jpg|thumb|Runners competing in the Llantwit Major 10K]]
Facilities at the Llantwit Major [[leisure centre]] include a small [[swimming pool]], large and small sports halls, the LifeStyle Fitness Studio, [[sunbed]] facilities, conference room and bar. The [[Llantwit Major RFC|Llantwit Major Rugby Football Club]], which played its first match against [[Cowbridge RFC|Cowbridge Rugby Football Club]] in 1889,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walesdir.com/Wales_Region/Torfaen_Vale_of_Glamorgan/Llantrithyd_Llantwit_Major/296921-33952.html|title=The Major RFC in Wales UK Business Directory|publisher=Wales Directory|access-date=15 February 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160209211713/http://www.walesdir.com/Wales_Region/Torfaen_Vale_of_Glamorgan/Llantrithyd_Llantwit_Major/296921-33952.html|archive-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> fields two senior, one youth (U/19) and eight mini/junior teams, and plays in [[WRU Division Four South East|Division Four]] of the [[Welsh Rugby Union]] leagues. Other sports clubs represent [[association football]], [[cricket]] and running.