Llangan
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{{Infobox UK place
| coordinates = {{coord|51.487494|-3.502011|display=inline,title}}
| country = Wales
| official_name = Llangan
| welsh_name = Llanganna
| community_wales = Llangan
| unitary_wales = Vale of Glamorgan
| lieutenancy_wales = South Glamorgan
| constituency_westminster = Vale of Glamorgan
| constituency_welsh_assembly = Vale of Glamorgan
| post_town = Bridgend
| postcode_area = CF
| postcode_district = CF35
| dial_code = 01446
| os_grid_reference = SS958775
| population = 702
| static_image = St Canna's Church, Llangan.JPG
| static_image_width = 240px
| static_image_caption = St Canna's Church, Llangan
| module= 240px
Map of the community
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Llangan ({{langx|cy|Llanganna}}) is a small village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is located approximately {{convert|4|mi|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.
File:Llangan School - geograph.org.uk - 341127.jpg
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.{{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 |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6|page=492}}
Notable people
- Joshua Parry (1719–1776), a Welsh nonconformist minister and writer, born in Llangan.{{cite DNB |wstitle= Parry, Joshua |volume= 43 |last= Smith |first= Charlotte Fell |author-link= Charlotte Fell Smith |pages = 381-382 |short=1}}
- 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.{{cite DWB|id=s-PRIC-JOH-1817|last=Ellis|first=Megan|title=John Prichard|access-date=20 April 2016}}
- Noel Forbes Humphreys (1890–1918), a Welsh rugby union international, born in Llangan Rectory.[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/502470 Commonwealth War Graves Commission]
Notes
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External links
- [http://www.llangancouncil.co.uk Llangan Community Council Website]
- [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=Llangan&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title Google maps]
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