Llangan

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 School

Llangan
St Canna's Church, Llangan
Llangan is located in Vale of Glamorgan
Llangan
Llangan
Location within the Vale of Glamorgan
Population702 (2011)[1]
OS grid referenceSS958775
Community
  • Llangan
Principal area
Preserved county
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBridgend
Postcode districtCF35
Dialling code01446
PoliceSouth Wales
FireSouth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
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
  • 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
  1. "Community population 2011". Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  2. 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.
  3. Smith, Charlotte Fell (1895). "Parry, Joshua" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 43. pp. 381–382.
  4. Ellis, Megan. "John Prichard". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  5. Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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