{{Short description|Community in Conwy County Borough, Wales}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | static_image_name = CaerhunChurchP9010457.JPG | static_image_caption = St Mary's Church | label_position = | official_name = Caerhun | welsh_name = Caerhûn | country = Wales | os_grid_reference = SH774704 | coordinates = {{coord|53.217|-3.836|display=inline,title}} | population = 1,292 | population_ref = ''(2011)'' | community_wales = Caerhun | unitary_wales = Conwy | lieutenancy_wales = Clwyd | constituency_welsh_assembly = Aberconwy | constituency_westminster = Bangor Aberconwy | post_town = CONWY | postcode_district = LL32 | postcode_area = LL | dial_code = 01492 | module= 240px<br />Map of the community }}
'''Caerhun''' ({{langx|cy|Caerhûn}}) is a scattered rural community, and former civil parish, on the west bank of the River Conwy. It lies to the south of Henryd and the north of Dolgarrog, in Conwy County Borough, Wales, and includes several small villages and hamlets including Llanbedr-y-cennin, Rowen, Tal-y-bont and Ty'n-y-groes. It was formerly in the historic county of Caernarvonshire. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 1,200,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do;jsessionid=ac1f930b30d5949f8001401f4363ae9beb81c0a9b241?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790561&nsjs=true&nsck=true&nssvg=false&nswid=1280 |title=Office for National Statistics : ''Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Conwy'' |access-date=8 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829060522/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/viewFullDataset.do;jsessionid=ac1f930b30d5949f8001401f4363ae9beb81c0a9b241?instanceSelection=03070&productId=779&$ph=60_61&datasetInstanceId=3070&startColumn=1&numberOfColumns=8&containerAreaId=790561&nsjs=true&nsck=true&nssvg=false&nswid=1280 |archive-date=29 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> increasing to 1,292 at the 2011 census.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11121551&c=LL32+8SW&d=16&e=62&g=6489325&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=0&s=1432204562916&enc=1|title=Community population 2011|access-date=21 May 2015}}</ref> It includes a large part of the Carneddau range including the lakes of Llyn Eigiau, Llyn Dulyn and Llyn Melynllyn.
==Features== {{see also|Canovium}} Surrounding the 14th-century parish church of St. Mary are the banks of the Roman fort of Canovium. The excavations of the Roman site were directed by P.K. Baillie Reynolds, of Aberystwyth University, over a period of four summers in the 1920s,<ref>{{cite book| last= Baillie Reynolds| first= P.K.| others= Kanovium Excavation Committee| title=Excavations on the site of the Roman fort of Kanovium at Caerhun, Caernarvonshire: collected reports on the excavations of the years 1926-1929 and on the pottery and other objects found| date= February 1938| publisher=William Lewis, Printers| location= Cardiff}} 282 pages. Baillie Reynolds' reports were originally published in Archaeologia</ref><ref name=KanoviumProject>{{Cite web|title=Read a book Visit a Museum: Kanovium Project Book Reviews |url=http://www.betws31.freeserve.co.uk/Books_about_Caerhun_Fort/books_about_caerhun_fort.html |access-date=2009-10-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511214942/http://www.betws31.freeserve.co.uk/Books_about_Caerhun_Fort/books_about_caerhun_fort.html |archive-date=2008-05-11 }}. Page found on Kanovium Project website</ref> although there have of course been several other publications since.<ref name=KanoviumProject />
The church and its churchyard occupy the north-east quarter of the original Roman site. Canovium was built at an ancient river crossing and was an important post on the Roman road and ancient drovers road via Bwlch-y-Ddeufaen to Abergwyngregyn and the Menai Strait. Latterly the best crossing point, now with a bridge, has been at nearby Tal-y-Cafn. After the end of Roman rule in Britain, the fort was associated with King Rhun Hir of Gwynedd, hence the subsequent name.
thumb|200px|right|The River Conwy viewed from the churchyard at Caerhun [[File:A lidar view of the Roman fort of Canovium in Wales.jpg|thumb|A lidar view of the Roman fort of Canovium in Conwy County Borough, Wales.]]
Caer Rhûn Hall is a Grade II listed building.<ref>{{National Historic Assets of Wales|desc=Caer Rhûn Hall|num=17030|grade=II|access-date=22 February 2023}}</ref> Its gardens and grounds are listed, also at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.<ref>{{NHAW|uid=142|num=PGW(Gd)12(CON)|desc=Caer Rhun Hall |class=HPG|access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref>
Arthur Tysilio Johnson, the "Perfidious Welshman", lived at Oakbank, Caerhun, and developed an important garden around the house and the Bulkeley Mill in the grounds which feature in a number of his works. The garden is listed at Grade II on the Cadw/Icomos register.<ref>{{NHAW|uid=143|num=PGW(Gd)13(CON)|desc=Oakbank and Bulkeley Mill|class=HPG|access-date=6 February 2023}}</ref>
==Governance== An electoral ward exists in the same name. This ward stretches to surrounding communities and at the 2011 census had a total population of 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/caerhun-w05000116#sthash.uyT0qYZy.dpbs|title=Ward population 2011|access-date=21 May 2015}}</ref>
==Notable people== * Sir John Ponsonby Conroy, 1786 – 1854 British army officer and comptroller to the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == {{Commons category-inline|Caerhun}} * [http://www.caerhuncommunitycouncil.co.uk Caerhun Community Council's website] * [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11754 A Vision of Britain Through Time] * [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wales/conwy/caerhun British Listed Buildings] * [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/CAE/Caerhun/index.html Genuki] * [https://www.geograph.org.uk/browse.php?p=333417 Geograph] * [http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadAreaSearch.do?a=7&r=1&i=1001&m=0&s=1365694893851&enc=1&areaSearchText=Caerhun&areaSearchType=16&extendedList=true&searchAreas= Office for National Statistics]
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Category:Caerhun Category:Communities in Conwy County Borough