# Llanychaer

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{{Short description|Village and parish in Pembrokeshire, Wales}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2025}}
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| official_name               = Llanychaer
| welsh_name                  = 
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| community_wales             = [Cwm Gwaun](/source/Cwm_Gwaun)
| unitary_wales               = [Pembrokeshire](/source/Pembrokeshire)
| constituency_westminster    = [Preseli Pembrokeshire](/source/Preseli_Pembrokeshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
| constituency_welsh_assembly = [Preseli Pembrokeshire](/source/Preseli_Pembrokeshire_(Assembly_constituency))
| post_town                   = Fishguard
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'''Llanychaer''' (English: church on the Aer, a tributary of the [River Gwaun](/source/River_Gwaun)) is a small rural village and [parish](/source/parish) in the [community](/source/Community_(Wales)) of [Cwm Gwaun](/source/Cwm_Gwaun), north [Pembrokeshire](/source/Pembrokeshire), Wales. It is {{convert|2|mi}} southeast of the port of [Fishguard](/source/Fishguard).

==History==
Llanychaer was in the ancient [hundred](/source/Hundred_(county_division)) of [Cemais](/source/Cemais_(Dyfed)).  Early in the 19th century the population was 176 and only half the land in the parish was [enclosed](/source/Enclosure).<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](/source/Diocese_of_St_Davids), absorbed with two other parishes into the larger Parish of Fishguard of the [Church in Wales](/source/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==
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==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

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