Llanigon: Difference between revisions

From Wikishire
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Created page with "{{Infobox town | county=Brecknockshire | name=Llanigon | picture=St Eigon, Llanigon - geograph.org.uk - 714248.jpg | picture caption=St. Eigon's Church | population=280 | os ..."
 
FixerBot (talk | contribs)
m clean up, typos fixed: the the → the
 
Line 14: Line 14:
| dialling code=01497
| dialling code=01497
}}
}}
'''Llanigon''' is a village and parish in eastern [[Brecknockshire]]. The parish lies on the edge of the [[Brecon Beacons]] National Park, north of the [[Black Mountains]] adjacent the the borders with [[Herefordshire]] and [[Monmouthshire]]. The village has approximately 280 inhabitants (2005).<ref>http://www.powys.gov.uk/uploads/media/22_Llanigon_en_01.pdf</ref> The nearest town is [[Hay-on-Wye]], some 1½ miles to the north.
'''Llanigon''' is a village and parish in eastern [[Brecknockshire]]. The parish lies on the edge of the [[Brecon Beacons]] National Park, north of the [[Black Mountains]] adjacent the borders with [[Herefordshire]] and [[Monmouthshire]]. The village has approximately 280 inhabitants (2005).<ref>http://www.powys.gov.uk/uploads/media/22_Llanigon_en_01.pdf</ref> The nearest town is [[Hay-on-Wye]], some 1½ miles to the north.


==History==
==History==

Latest revision as of 13:14, 27 January 2016

Llanigon
Brecknockshire

St. Eigon's Church
Location
Grid reference: SN966296
Location: 52°3’17"N, 3°9’0"W
Data
Population: 280
Post town: Hereford
Postcode: HR3
Dialling code: 01497
Local Government
Council: Powys
Parliamentary
constituency:
Brecon & Radnorshire

Llanigon is a village and parish in eastern Brecknockshire. The parish lies on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, north of the Black Mountains adjacent the borders with Herefordshire and Monmouthshire. The village has approximately 280 inhabitants (2005).[1] The nearest town is Hay-on-Wye, some 1½ miles to the north.

History

The parish church is dedicated to the mysterious St. Eigon, who may have been a daughter of Caratacus or (more probably) a brother of St. Cynidr of nearby Glasbury.[2][3] The former interpretation has inspired Barbara Erskine's novel The Warrior's Princess, partly set in Llanigon.[4] The church predates the Norman Conquest, though the current building (parts of which are Norman) is somewhat later.[5][6]

The manor was formerly known as Llanthomas (or Thomas Church) and was part of the lordship of Hay. Remains of a motte, believed to be 11th or 12th century, survive near the old manor house,[7] which was demolished in the 20th century. In 1522, the manor belonged to Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford [8] and was said to be the birthplace of William Thomas.[9]

Llwynllwyd barn, to the west of the village, was a dissenting academy in the eighteenth century. The pioneer Welsh Methodist Howell Harris[10] and the hymn writer William Williams Pantycelyn[11] were both educated there.

In the 1870s the diarist Francis Kilvert, curate of Clyro, was a regular visitor to the then vicar of Llanigon, the Rev. William Thomas, and fell in love with his daughter, Daisy. Her father asked Kilvert not to pursue the matter, probably because as a mere curate he was not sufficiently well-placed. Kilvert noted "On this day when I proposed for the girl who will I trust one day be my wife I had only one sovereign in the world, and I owed that." Daisy never married and is buried in Llanigon churchyard.[12]

Notes

Outside links