# Llanfor

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{{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](/source/Llandderfel)
| unitary_wales               = [Gwynedd](/source/Gwynedd)
| lieutenancy_wales           = 
| constituency_welsh_assembly = [Dwyfor Meirionnydd](/source/Dwyfor_Meirionnydd_(Assembly_constituency))
| constituency_westminster    = [Dwyfor Meirionnydd](/source/Dwyfor_Meirionnydd_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
| post_town                   = BALA
| postcode_district           = LL23
| postcode_area               = LL
| dial_code                   = 01678
| os_grid_reference           = SH935366
| cardiff_distance            =  
}}

'''Llanfor''' is a village in [Gwynedd](/source/Gwynedd), [Wales](/source/Wales) near the town of [Bala](/source/Bala%2C_Gwynedd), in the [community](/source/Community_(Wales)) of [Llandderfel](/source/Llandderfel).

==History==
There is evidence of an [Iron Age](/source/Iron_Age) [hill fort](/source/hill_fort) in the immediate area.{{reference needed|date=April 2026}} There was a [Roman fort](/source/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](/source/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](/source/monk) from Llanfor was reputedly responsible for converting [Llywarch Hen](/source/Llywarch_Hen),<ref>Skene, William F. (Aug 1868). "The [Four Ancient Books of Wales](/source/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](/source/Rheged), to [Christianity](/source/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](/source/Dewi_Havhesp), ca.1875]]
* [William Price](/source/William_Price_(Royalist)) (1619–1691), a Welsh politician, MP between 1640 and 1679 and fought as a [Royalist](/source/Cavalier) colonel in the [English Civil War](/source/English_Civil_War).
* [Humphrey Foulkes](/source/Humphrey_Foulkes) (1673–1737) a Welsh priest and antiquarian.
* [William Price](/source/William_Price_(High_Sheriff)) (1690–1774) a Welsh High Sheriff and antiquarian, from [Rhiwlas](/source/Llandderfel).
* Richard Thelwall Price, British member of Parliament for Beaumaris, 1754–1768
* [John Williams](/source/John_Williams_(Ab_Ithel)) (1811–1862), antiquary, [bardic name](/source/bardic_name) ''Ab Ithel'', the Anglican curate of Llanfor from 1835
* [Richard Williams Morgan](/source/Richard_Williams_Morgan) (1815–1889), bardic name ''Môr Meirion'', author, priest and Welsh nationalist campaigner
* [David Roberts](/source/Dewi_Havhesp) (1831–1884), poet known as ''‘Dewi Havhesp’'', spent his early years at 'Pensingrug', Llanfor.

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