Llangarron Explained

Country:England
Region:West Midlands
Constituency Westminster:Hereford and South Herefordshire
Coordinates:51.887°N -2.6846°W
Population:1,053
Population Ref:(2011 Census)
Post Town:Ross-on-Wye
Postcode Area:HR
Postcode District:HR9
Static Image Name:St DeinstLlangarron01.JPG
Static Image Caption:Church of St Deinst, Llangarron
Unitary England:Herefordshire
Lieutenancy England:Herefordshire

Llangarron is a small village and civil parish in southwest Herefordshire within 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. A variant suggestion is that the name derives from “garan”, Welsh for stork or heron, as a heron-like bird is depicted in the church gates.[4]

Church and other buildings

See 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 and founder of a monastery at Bangor and to whom the mediaeval Bangor Cathedral was dedicated. Records of a church at Llangarron begin in the reign of Edward the Confessor, when a church was consecrated at the site, and a subsequent re-consecration as "lan garan" church is recorded in the reign of William I.[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, Ruxton Court, an Elizabethan stone and half-timbered farmhouse, and Bernithan Court, which was built in about 1960 on the foundations of an older house.[5]

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.[6]

See also

External links

51.887°N -2.6846°W

Notes and References

  1. http://www.british-towns.net/en/level_4_display.asp?GetL3=546 British Towns
  2. Web site: Civil Parish population 2011. 31 October 2015.
  3. http://llangarron.info/ Community website - Retrieved 15 March 2015
  4. Web site: St Deinst, Llangarron. Herefordshire Churches Tourism Group. 3 July 2021.
  5. Book: Andere, Mary.. Homes and houses of Herefordshire. 1977. Express Logic Ltd. 0904464105. Hereford. 3362429.
  6. Web site: Ward population 2011. 31 October 2015.