{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | country = Wales | official_name = Llanfor | welsh_name = | coordinates = {{coord|52.916|-3.583|display=inline,title}} | static_image_name = Llanfor Church - geograph.org.uk - 114627.jpg | static_image_caption = Llanfor Church | population = | population_ref = | community_wales = Llandderfel | unitary_wales = Gwynedd | lieutenancy_wales = | constituency_welsh_assembly = Dwyfor Meirionnydd | constituency_westminster = Dwyfor Meirionnydd | post_town = BALA | postcode_district = LL23 | postcode_area = LL | dial_code = 01678 | os_grid_reference = SH935366 | cardiff_distance = }}
'''Llanfor''' is a village in Gwynedd, Wales near the town of Bala, in the community of Llandderfel.
==History== There is evidence of an Iron Age hill fort in the immediate area.{{reference needed|date=April 2026}} There was a Roman fort, so far undated precisely but it may have been built during the first campaign of conquest of Wales by the Roman governor Julius Frontinus (AD 73-77).<ref>Hopewell, David. [https://www.walesher1974.org/her/groups/GAT/media/GAT_Reports/GATreport_635_compressed.pdf "Roman fort environs. Additional geophysical survey at Caer Gai and Cefn Caer"], G1632. Report number 635, Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, March 2006, p. 3.</ref>
In the 6th century an unknown monk from Llanfor was reputedly responsible for converting Llywarch Hen,<ref>Skene, William F. (Aug 1868). "The Four Ancient Books of Wales, Containing the Cymric Poems Attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century". The Dublin University Magazine. LXXII (CCCCXXVIII): 226–240. Retrieved 22 January 2013.</ref> prince of Rheged, to Christianity.
There is a legend that the Devil used to frequently visit Llanfor Church in the shape of a pig.<ref>{{cite web |title="Ejecting the Evil Spirit from Llanfor Church in the Form of a Pig" The Devil, Evil Spirits, Satan in Welsh mythology |url=http://www.welsh-mythsandlegends.walesdirectory.co.uk/The_Devil_Evil_Spirits_Satan/Ejecting_the_Evil_Spirit_from_Llanfor_Church_in_the_Form_of_a_Pig.html |publisher=WalesDirectory.co.uk |accessdate=20 August 2014 }}</ref>
==Notable people from Llanfor== [[File:David Roberts (Dewi Havhesp, 1831-84) NLW3361824.jpg|thumb|140px|Dewi Havhesp, ca.1875]] * William Price (1619–1691), a Welsh politician, MP between 1640 and 1679 and fought as a Royalist colonel in the English Civil War. * Humphrey Foulkes (1673–1737) a Welsh priest and antiquarian. * William Price (1690–1774) a Welsh High Sheriff and antiquarian, from Rhiwlas. * Richard Thelwall Price, British member of Parliament for Beaumaris, 1754–1768 * John Williams (1811–1862), antiquary, bardic name ''Ab Ithel'', the Anglican curate of Llanfor from 1835 * Richard Williams Morgan (1815–1889), bardic name ''Môr Meirion'', author, priest and Welsh nationalist campaigner * David Roberts (1831–1884), poet known as ''‘Dewi Havhesp’'', spent his early years at 'Pensingrug', Llanfor.
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Category:Villages in Gwynedd