:Talysarn

{{Short description|Village in Gwynedd, Wales}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = Wales

| welsh_name =

| static_image_name = The Bro Silyn Estate, Talysarn - geograph.org.uk - 235634.jpg

| constituency_welsh_assembly = Arfon

| constituency_westminster = Arfon

| official_name = Talysarn

| population = 1,930

| population_ref = (ward 2011)

| community_wales = Llanllyfni

| unitary_wales = Gwynedd

| lieutenancy_wales = Gwynedd

| post_town = CAERNARFON

| postcode_district = LL54

| postcode_area = LL

| dial_code = 01286

| os_grid_reference = SH488529

| coordinates = {{coord|53.052|-4.256|display=inline,title}}

}}

File:Cornish_beam_engine,_Talysarn.jpg near Talysarn]]

Tal-y-sarn ({{pronunciation|Talysarn.ogg|Welsh pronunciation|help=no}}) is a village in the slate quarrying Nantlle Valley in Gwynedd, Wales, next to Penygroes. It is part of the community of Llanllyfni and includes some of Llandwrog.{{cite book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| editor3-first=Baines |editor3-last=Menna|editor4-first=Peredur I. |editor4-last=Lynch|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff|page=502 |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}} The ward had a population of 1,930 at the 2011 census, the built-up area having a population of 1,086.{{NOMIS2011|id=1119885417|title=Talysarn built-up area|access-date=13 February 2019}}

The Welsh language poet Robert Williams Parry was born in 37, Station Road, Tal-y-sarn, where a plaque designed by R. L. Gapper commemorates the connection.{{cite book |url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-PARR-WIL-1884 |title=PARRY , ROBERT WILLIAMS ( 1884 - 1956 ), poet, univ. lecturer |publisher=Dictionary of Welsh Biography |date=2001 |first=Thomas |last=Parry}} Other persons connected with the village were Annant, quarryman, preacher and bard, Gwilym R. Jones, bard and journalist, {{ill|Idwal Jones (1910-1985)|lt=Idwal Jones|cy}} author of the Welsh-language radio series SOS, Galw Gari Tryfan and Dame Elan Closs Stephens DBE (born 1948) a Welsh educator and Wales' representative on the BBC Board.

The 19th century methodist preacher John Jones, Tal-y-sarn, is also connected with the village, not by birth but because he settled here, becoming a shopkeeper and quarry owner as a sideline to his main vocation.{{cite journal |first=G. T |last=Roberts |title=John Jones Tal-y-Sarn (1796-1857) |journal=Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Sir Gaernarfon |volume=cyfrol 18 |date=1957}}

The song "Ciosg Talysarn" by the Welsh folk singer Dafydd Iwan was written after two secret agents were found bugging a public telephone in Tal-y-sarn in 1982.{{cite book |title=The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historic Documents |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4xNuREbVlCsC&q=%22Ciosg+Talysarn%22&pg=PA144 |page=144 |publisher=University of California Press |date=1999|isbn = 9780520224704}}

Tal-y-sarn is covered by a Neighbourhood Policing Team based in the nearby village of Pen-y-groes.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}