{{Short description|Village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | country = Wales | static_image = Former council houses, Llanychaer - geograph.org.uk - 332754.jpg | static_image_caption = | static_image_width = | static_image_alt = | coordinates = {{coord|51.97|N|04.94|W|display=inline,title}} | official_name = Llanychaer | welsh_name = | population = | population_ref = | community_wales = Cwm Gwaun | unitary_wales = Pembrokeshire | constituency_westminster = Preseli Pembrokeshire | constituency_welsh_assembly = Preseli Pembrokeshire | post_town = Fishguard | postcode_district = | postcode_area = | dial_code = | os_grid_reference = SM9835 }}
'''Llanychaer''' (English: church on the Aer, a tributary of the River Gwaun) is a small rural village and parish in the community of Cwm Gwaun, north Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is {{convert|2|mi}} southeast of the port of Fishguard.
==History== Llanychaer was in the ancient hundred of Cemais. Early in the 19th century the population was 176 and only half the land in the parish was enclosed.<ref name="GENUKI">{{cite web|title=GENUKI: Llanychaer|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Llanychaer|accessdate=6 May 2020}}</ref> Later in the century, it was described as hilly, much of which was pasture, with the village consisting of a few farmhouses.<ref name="Gazetteer">{{cite web|title=The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Llanychaer/LlanychaerGaz1868|accessdate=6 May 2020}}</ref>
Glandwr Baptist chapel in the village was built in 1894.<ref>{{Coflein|num=11108 |desc=Glandwr Welsh Baptist Chapel, Llanychar;glan-dwr |access-date=29 September 2021}}</ref> The Reverend Carl D Williams, a well-known preacher in Wales, had been the minister for 28 years (in all, a minister for 50 years) until his retirement in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=Western Telegraph|title=Hermon Chapel, Fishguard and Glandwr Chapel, Llanychaer, minister plans to step down from the pulpit|date=30 May 2010|url=https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/8192000.hermon-chapel-fishguard-and-glandwr-chapel-llanychaer-minister-plans-to-step-down-from-the-pulpit/|accessdate=6 May 2020}}</ref>
==Features== There are two bridges crossing the Gwaun in the north of the parish: at Cilrhedyn and Llanychaer. A disused mill close to the latter is recorded at the end of the 19th century.<ref name="RCAHMW">{{cite web|title=RCAHMW: Llanychaer|url=https://historicplacenames.rcahmw.gov.uk/placenames/headname/b3726611-eeef-4485-bb49-06b17386df6c|accessdate=6 May 2020}}</ref>
==Parish== The parish is in the Diocese of St Davids, absorbed with two other parishes into the larger Parish of Fishguard of the Church in Wales.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Parish of Fishguard|url=https://parish.churchinwales.org.uk/d287/churches-en/st-davids-llanychaer/|accessdate=6 May 2020}}</ref> Llanychaer (as ''Llanachaier'') appears on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire.<ref>{{cite web|title=Penbrok comitat|publisher=British Library|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/p/001map00000c7c1u00035000.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927183108/http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/unvbrit/p/001map00000c7c1u00035000.html |access-date=22 July 2024 |archive-date=27 September 2021 }}</ref> It is rural, with scattered settlements.<ref name="map">{{cite web|title=GENUKI Parish map 28|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Newport/ParishMap|accessdate=6 May 2020}}</ref>
The parish church of St David dates back at least to the 12th century with evidence of earlier use as a place of worship, possibly as early as the 6th century. The present church was completely rebuilt on earlier foundations about 1876.<ref name="Coflein">{{Coflein|num=308634 |desc=St David's Church, Llanychaer |access-date=29 September 2021|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>
==References== {{commons category|Llanychaer}} {{reflist}}
==Further reading== *[https://books.google.com/books?id=JC1EygEACAAJ An old register book of Llanychaer Parish Church, Fishguard Rural Deanery, Pembrokeshire] *[https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/peasant-crofts-in-north-pembrokeshire/5761FDE5A13300A1CCAF54B4752CAA41# Peasant crofts in North Pembrokeshire (1937 survey)]
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Category:Villages in Pembrokeshire