Llangarron is a small village and

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in southwest

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within of both

Ross-on-Wye Ross-on-Wye (Welsh: ''Rhosan ar Wy'') is a market town in England, near the border with Wales. It had a population of 10,582 according to the 2011 census, estimated at 11,309 in 2019. It lies in south-eastern Herefordshire, on the River Wye and ...

(Herefordshire, England) and

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(

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, Wales). The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,053. The civil parish includes the settlements of

Llangrove Llangrove is a small village in the civil parish of Llangarron in southwest Herefordshire within seven miles of Ross-on-Wye (Herefordshire, England) and Monmouth ( Monmouthshire, Wales). The village has a pub, The Royal Arms, a school, Llangrove ...

, Llancloudy, Biddlestone and Three Ashes. The church is dedicated to St. Deinst (a Celtic saint who died in c584). The village no longer has a

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nor

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, though it does have a community hall. The name (also spelt Llangarren and Llangarran) refers to the Garron Brook, a tributary of the

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. Several local farms have

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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 The herons are long-legged, long-necked, freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 72 recognised species, some of which are referred to as egrets or bitterns rather than herons. Members of the genera ''Botaurus'' and ''Ixobrychus ...

stork Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills. They belong to the family called Ciconiidae, and make up the order Ciconiiformes . Ciconiiformes previously included a number of other families, such as herons an ...

or crane. This may explain the representation of such a bird in the church gates.

Church and other buildings

The dedication to 'St Deinst' exists for no other Anglican church. It is identified with

St. Deiniol Saint Deiniol (died 572) was traditionally the first Bishop of Bangor in the Kingdom of Gwynedd, Wales. The present Bangor Cathedral, dedicated to Deiniol, is said to be on the site where his monastery stood. He is venerated in Brittany as Sain ...

, or Deiniel, a sixth-century abbot-bishop who founded a monastery at Bangor and to whom the mediaeval

Bangor Cathedral Bangor Cathedral ( cy, Eglwys Gadeiriol Bangor) is a cathedral in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. It is dedicated to its founder, Saint Deiniol. The site of the present building of Bangor Cathedral has been in use as a place of Christian worship since ...

was dedicated. Records of a church at Llangarron extend as far back as

Edward the Confessor Edward the Confessor ; la, Eduardus Confessor , ; ( 1003 – 5 January 1066) was one of the last Anglo-Saxon English kings. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 to 1066. Edward was the son of Æth ...

, when a wooden ecclesiastical building was consecrated under the heirs of Ceheric ap Eleu, and was then re-consecrated under

William I William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087 ...

as "lan garan" church. Other buildings of note in the parish, all of which are

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, are Langstone Court, a late seventeenth-century red-brick house, Ruxton Court, an

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stone and half-timbered farmhouse, and Bernithan Court, which was built in about 1960 on the foundations of an older house.

Governance

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in the same name exists. This ward stretches towards

with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 3,357.

References

External links

Llangarron Parish Council

Llangarron Community

Llangrove CE Academy (formerly Llangrove CE Primary School)

Llangarron Life Community Website
Villages in Herefordshire Civil parishes in Herefordshire {{Herefordshire-geo-stub

Church and other buildings

Governance

See also

References

External links