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Llangan

Field	Value
coordinates
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
population_ref	(2011)
static_image	St Canna's Church, Llangan.JPG
static_image_width	240px
static_image_caption	St Canna's Church, Llangan
module	[[File:Wales Vale of Glamorgan Community Llangan map.svg	240px]]
Map of the community

Map of the community Llangan () is a small village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is located approximately 4 mi 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 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.

Notable people

Joshua Parry (1719–1776), a Welsh nonconformist minister and writer, born in Llangan.
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.
Noel Forbes Humphreys (1890–1918), a Welsh rugby union international, born in Llangan Rectory.

Notes

References

"Community population 2011".
(2008). "The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales". University of Wales Press.
{{cite DNB. Smith. Charlotte Fell
Ellis, Megan. "John Prichard".
[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/502470 Commonwealth War Graves Commission]

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