Llanover
Llanover (/ləˈnoʊvə/; Welsh: Llanofer) is a village and community in Monmouthshire, Wales. The population taken at the 2011 census was 1,392.[1]
Location
Llanover is located four miles south of Abergavenny just off the A4042 road to Pontypool. The community includes the separate hamlets of Llanfair Kilgeddin, Llanfihangel Gobion, Llanddewi Rhydderch and The Bryn (a.k.a. Llangattock Nigh Usk).
Governance
An electoral ward exists in the same name. This ward includes the parish of Llanarth and elects a county councillor to Monmouthshire County Council.[2]
The total ward population at the 2011 census was 2,284.[3]
History & amenities
Llanover is associated with Augusta Lady Llanover who lived locally all her life and left her mark on the village and the surrounding Llanover Hall estate, still privately owned today. Her husband Sir Benjamin Hall became Baron Llanover. Her sisters, diplomatic hostess and author Frances Bunsen and Emily grew up there, educated by their mother Georgina Mary Ann, (née Port) (1771–1850), with Augusta and Frances surviving to become co-heiresses to the estate from their father Benjamin Waddington.[4]
The village church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew and is a grade II* listed building.[5]
The River Usk flows close by, and to the west lies the Brecon and Monmouthshire canal, a scenic recreational boating route.
More recently, Llanover is the birthplace of Penelope Fillon, the wife of François Fillon, former Prime Minister of France and right-wing candidate in the 2017 French presidential elections.
References
- ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ The County of Monmouthshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2002. Statutory Instruments. 6 December 2002. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ "Ward population 2011". Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
- ^ "Bunsen, Christian Karl Josias von, Baron von Bunsen in the Prussian nobility (1791–1860), diplomatist and scholar hostess and biographer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53760. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 31 May 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Church of St. Bartholomew, Llanover". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
External links
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