Llangarron

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.

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

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
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,[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. "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.
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