{{Short description|Village in Herefordshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | country = England | region = West Midlands | constituency_westminster = Hereford and South Herefordshire | coordinates = {{coord|51.8870|N|2.6846|W}} | population = 1,053 | population_ref = (2011 Census) | post_town = Ross-on-Wye | postcode_area = HR | postcode_district = HR9 | static_image_name = St DeinstLlangarron01.JPG | static_image_caption = Church of St Deinst, Llangarron | unitary_england = Herefordshire | lieutenancy_england = Herefordshire }}
'''Llangarron''' is a small village and civil parish in southwest Herefordshire within {{convert|7|mi}} of both Ross-on-Wye (Herefordshire, England) and Monmouth (Monmouthshire, Wales).<ref>[http://www.british-towns.net/en/level_4_display.asp?GetL3=546 British Towns] Retrieved 27 July 2010</ref> The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 1,053.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125899&c=HR9+6ER&d=16&e=62&g=6386041&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1446312524473&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=31 October 2015}}</ref> The civil parish includes the settlements of '''Llangrove''', '''Llancloudy, Biddlestone''' and '''Three Ashes'''.<ref>[http://llangarron.info/ Community website - Retrieved 15 March 2015]</ref> The church is dedicated to St. Deinst (a Celtic saint who died in c584). The village no longer has a post office nor pub, though it does have a community hall.
The name, also spelt Llangarren and Llangarran, refers to the Garron Brook, a tributary of the River Wye. Several local farms have Welsh names, a legacy of the fluid nature of the England-Wales border in the past. A variant suggestion is that the name derives from “garan”, Welsh for stork or heron, as a heron-like bird is depicted in the church gates.<ref name=churches>{{cite web|url=https://www.visitherefordshirechurches.co.uk/st-deinst-llangarron/|title=St Deinst, Llangarron|publisher=Herefordshire Churches Tourism Group|access-date=3 July 2021}}</ref>
==Church and other buildings== {{main|Church of St Deinst, Llangarron}} The dedication to 'St Deinst' exists for no other Anglican church. It is identified with St. Deiniol, or Deiniel, a sixth-century abbot-bishop and founder of a monastery at Bangor and to whom the mediaeval Bangor Cathedral was dedicated. Records of a church at Llangarron begin in the reign of Edward the Confessor, when a church was consecrated at the site, and a subsequent re-consecration as "lan garan" church is recorded in the reign of William I.<ref name=churches/>
Other buildings of note in the parish, all of which are Grade II* listed, are Langstone Court, a late seventeenth-century red-brick house,<ref>{{NHLE|num=1178604|desc=Langstone Court|grade=II*|access-date=1 July 2021}}</ref> Ruxton Court, an Elizabethan stone and half-timbered farmhouse,<ref>{{NHLE|num=1099426|desc=Ruxton Court|grade=II*|access-date=1 July 2021}}</ref> and Bernithan Court, which was built in about 1960 on the foundations of an older house.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1099439|desc=Bernithan Court|grade=II*|access-date=1 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Homes and houses of Herefordshire|last=Andere, Mary.|date=1977|publisher=Express Logic Ltd|isbn=0904464105|location=Hereford|oclc=3362429}}</ref>
==Governance== An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches towards Ross-on-Wye with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 3,357.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukcensusdata.com/llangarron-e05001865#sthash.7M1srL3O.dpbs|title=Ward population 2011|accessdate=31 October 2015}}</ref>
==See also== * Archenfield
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Llangarron}} * [http://llangarronpc.co.uk/ Llangarron Parish Council] * [http://llangarron.info/ Llangarron Community] * [http://llangrove.hmfa.org.uk/ Llangrove CE Academy (formerly Llangrove CE Primary School)] * [https://www.llangarron.info Llangarron Life Community Website]
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