Llangan (Welsh: Llanganna) is a small village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is located approximately 4 miles (6.4 km) outside the market town of Cowbridge. As a community it contains the settlements of St Mary Hill, Treoes and Llangan itself. It is in the historic county of Glamorgan.
Llangan
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 St Canna's Church, Llangan | |
  Llangan Location within the Vale of Glamorgan | |
| Population | 702 (2011)[1] |
| OS grid reference | SS958775 |
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| Principal area | |
| Preserved county | |
| Country | Wales |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Bridgend |
| Postcode district | CF35 |
| Dialling code | 01446 |
| Police | South Wales |
| Fire | South Wales |
| Ambulance | Welsh |
| UK Parliament | |
| Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament | |
Llangan became an important religious site in the late 18th century due to the work and preaching of its church's vicar David Jones, an early supporter of Calvinistic Methodism in Wales.[2]
Notable people
edit- Joshua Parry (1719–1776), a Welsh nonconformist minister and writer, born in Llangan.[3]
- David Jones (1736–1810), a Welsh Anglican priest, settled in Llangan in 1767.
- John Prichard (1817–1886), a Welsh architect in the neo-Gothic style, born in Llangan.[4]
- Noel Forbes Humphreys (1890–1918), a Welsh rugby union international, born in Llangan Rectory.[5]
Notes
edit- ^ "Community population 2011". Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines; Lynch, Peredur I., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 492. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- ^ Smith, Charlotte Fell (1895). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 43. pp. 381–382.
- ^ Ellis, Megan. "John Prichard". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
- ^ Commonwealth War Graves Commission