Llangarron

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Llangarron
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Church of St Deinst, Llangarron
Llangarron is located in Herefordshire
Llangarron
Llangarron
Location within Herefordshire
Population1,053 (2011 Census)
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRoss-on-Wye
Postcode districtHR9
PoliceWest Mercia
FireHereford and Worcester
AmbulanceWest Midlands
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Herefordshire
51°53′13″N 2°41′05″W / 51.8870°N 2.6846°W / 51.8870; -2.6846

Llangarron is a small village and civil parish in southwest Herefordshire within 7 miles (11 km) of both Ross-on-Wye (Herefordshire, England) and Monmouth (Monmouthshire, Wales).[1] The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,053.[2] The civil parish includes the settlements of Llangrove, Llancloudy, Biddlestone and Three Ashes.[3] The church is dedicated to St. Deinst (a Celtic saint who died in c584). The village no longer has a post office nor pub, though it does have a community hall.

The name (also spelt Llangarren and Llangarran) refers to the Garron Brook, a tributary of the River Wye. Several local farms have Welsh names, a legacy of the fluid nature of the England-Wales border in the past. An alternative view is that the village is named after the Welsh word “garan” which means heron, stork or crane. This may explain the representation of such a bird in the church gates.[4]

Church and other buildings[]

Main article: Church of St Deinst, Llangarron

The dedication to 'St Deinst' exists for no other Anglican church. It is identified with St. Deiniol, or Deiniel, a sixth-century abbot-bishop who founded a monastery at Bangor and to whom the mediaeval Bangor Cathedral was dedicated. Records of a church at Llangarron extend as far back as Edward the Confessor, when a wooden ecclesiastical building was consecrated under the heirs of Ceheric ap Eleu, and was then re-consecrated under William I as "lan garan" church.[4]

Other buildings of note in the parish, all of which are Grade II* listed, are Langstone Court, a late seventeenth-century red-brick house,[5] Ruxton Court, an Elizabethan stone and half-timbered farmhouse,[6] and Bernithan Court, which was built in about 1960 on the foundations of an older house.[7][8]

Governance[]

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches towards Ross-on-Wye with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 3,357.[9]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ British Towns Retrieved 27 July 2010
  2. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  3. ^ Community website - Retrieved 15 March 2015
  4. ^ a b "St Deinst, Llangarron". Herefordshire Churches Tourism Group. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  5. ^ Historic England. "Langstone Court (Grade II*) (1178604)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  6. ^ Historic England. "Ruxton Court (Grade II*) (1099426)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  7. ^ Historic England. "Bernithan Court (Grade II*) (1099439)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  8. ^ Andere, Mary. (1977). Homes and houses of Herefordshire. Hereford: Express Logic Ltd. ISBN 0904464105. OCLC 3362429.
  9. ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 31 October 2015.

External links[]

Coordinates: 51°53′13″N 2°41′05″W / 51.8870°N 2.6846°W / 51.8870; -2.6846


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