Llangarron

Llangarron is a small village and civil parish in southwest Herefordshire within 7 miles (11 km) of 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. The village no longer has a post office nor pub, though it does have a hall.

Llangarron

Church of St Deinst, Llangarron
Llangarron
Location within Herefordshire
Population1,053 (2011 Census)
Unitary authority
Shire 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. 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]

'St Deinst' appears nowhere else in England. 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 as Edward the Confessor, when a wooden ecclesiastical building was consecrated under the heirs of Ceheric ap Eleu, and was then reconsecrated under William I as "lan garan" church.[4]

Buildings of note in the Parish are Langstone Court, late seventeenth-century red-brick house, Ruxton Court, Elizabethan stone and half-timbered farmhouse, and Bernithan Court, built 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

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. "LLANGARRON" at visitherefordshirechurches.co.uk Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Andere, Mary. (1977). Homes and houses of Herefordshire. Hereford: Express Logic Ltd. ISBN 0904464105. OCLC 3362429.
  6. "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 31 October 2015.


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