Llandderfel

Llandderfel

Llandderfel and River Dee
Llandderfel
 Llandderfel shown within Gwynedd
Population 1,095 (2011)
OS grid referenceSH980371
CommunityLlandderfel
Principal areaGwynedd
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town BALA
Postcode district LL23
Dialling code 01678
Police North Wales
Fire North Wales
Ambulance Welsh
EU Parliament Wales
UK ParliamentDwyfor Meirionnydd
Welsh AssemblyDwyfor Meirionnydd
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Coordinates: 52°55′19″N 3°30′58″W / 52.922°N 3.516°W / 52.922; -3.516

Llandderfel is a village and community in Gwynedd, Wales, formerly served by the Llandderfel railway station. The community also includes the settlement of Rhiwlas. The Community population taken at the 2011 census was 1,095.[1]

Palé Hall

Palé Hall was built in 1871, on the site of an older manor house in Llandderfel. It was designed by Samuel Pountney Smith of Shrewsbury for Henry Robertson MP, a railway engineer and local landowner. The house was used as a military hospital in World War I and a home for evacuated children in World War II. The Robertson family sold the estate to the Duke of Westminster in the 1950s.[2]

The church of St Derfel

The parish church of Llandderfel (Saint Dervel) is part of the diocese of St Asaph and is mentioned in the Papal Registers of the late 15th century.[3] The poet Dewi Havhesp is buried at Llandderfel church yard.

A Celtic Llan site, founded in the early 6th century by Saint Derfel, the church was rebuilt probably in the early 16th century. A large wooden image of the saint was sent to London in 1538 and burned with John Forest in Smithfield, however the now headless carved red stag and staff are still preserved within the porch.[4][5]

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches beyond the confines of Llandderfel with a population taken at the 2011 census of 1,511.[6]

Notable people

References

  1. "community population 2011". Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  2. "Llandderfel". Savills.
  3. J. A. Twemlow (editor) (1933). "Lateran Regesta 586: 1463". Calendar of Papal Registers Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 12: 1458-1471. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  4. Wales' 1000 Best Heritage Sites by Terry Breverton, Amberley Publishing Limited, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4456-2013-8
  5. Parish Church of St Derfel, Llandderfel, British Listed Buildings
  6. "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 16 May 2015.
  7. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-sir-rees-davies-222815.html

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