- Llawhaden
Llawhaden ( _cy. Llanhuadain) is a
village and parish in the Hundred of Dungleddy (Welsh "Daugleddyf"),Pembrokeshire ,West Wales .Llawhaden [ [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/PEM/Llawhaden/ Llawhaden on Genuki] ] was a civil parish, area 1865 Ha.The
parish church of St Aidan (of Ferns, a disciple ofSaint David ) is situated below the village beside the river, at coord|51.8226|N|4.7944|W. The name Llawhaden is an anglicised version of the Welsh form "Llanhuadain", and probably means "(monastic) enclosure of St Aidan" [Charles, B. G, "The Placenames of Pembrokeshire", National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1992, ISBN 0-907158-58-7, Vol II, p 420] . The village is in the form of a largemedieval planned settlement, although most of the land lots laid out along the main street are now vacant. At the end of the main street, spectacularly overlooking the Cleddau valley, is a substantialcastle ,Llawhaden Castle [ [http://www.castlewales.com/lahw.html Castles of Wales] ] . The village and castle were created and owned by the Bishops of St David's. It was once a marcher borough. Owen, in 1603, described it as one of nine Pembrokeshire "boroughs in decay" [Owen, George, "The Description of Penbrokshire by George Owen of Henllys Lord of Kemes", Henry Owen (Ed), London, 1892] .The parish straddles the linguistic boundary, and was one of the six "bilingual" parishes mentioned by George Owen in 1603 [Owen, George, "The Description of Pembrokeshire" Dillwyn Miles (Ed) (Gomer Press, Llandysul 1994) ISBN 1-85902-120-4.] . The parish is divided east-west into two unequal parts by the Eastern Cleddau river, and this has been a fairly stable language boundary at least since Owen's time, with English speakers to the west and Welsh speakers to the east, although, perhaps in the early
Industrial Revolution , Welsh-speakers infiltrated the western part in the area around Gelliwoolen mill .The civil parish had population as follows [OPCS Reports] :
The community of Llawhaden includes also the parish of
Robeston Wathen and part ofNarberth , and had a population of 634 in 2001.External links
* [http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=2674470 www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Llawhaden and surrounding area]
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