Llangoed () is a small village,
community and
electoral ward
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just north of
Beaumaris, on the
Isle of Anglesey or ''Ynys Môn'', at . The
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postcode
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begins LL58. Llangoed ward has a population of 1,275 (2001), falling at the 2011 census to 1,229.
The village's
placename means the 'religious enclosure in the wood' in the
Welsh language.
Llangoed is on the banks of a brook called the
Afon Lleiniog
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, which flows from the hamlet of Glanrafon to the sea, beneath the ruins of an 11th-century
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castle
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,
Castell Aberlleiniog.
The 17th-century parish church of
St Cawrdaf,
restored in the 19th century, is in the north of the village, near a
Victorian
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school and chapel.
The modern centre of the village is a steep hill lined by cottages, a post office, grocery store and chapel. To the south of the village is a primary school, Ysgol Gynradd Llangoed, and small housing estates. Sports fields are the location of an annual
Rugby sevens competition. Undulating green farmland surrounds the village, with fine views to the
Menai Strait
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, the
Irish Sea and the mountains of
Snowdonia (in Welsh, ''
Eryri'').
The community also includes the villages of
Glan-yr-afon (Llangoed),
Caim, and
Penmon.
Notable people
* Edith Ellen Henrietta Massey (1863-1946) and Gwenddolen Elizabeth Evileen Massey (1864-1960), known as the
Massey Sisters
Edith Ellen Henrietta Massey (1863-1946) and Gwenddolen Elizabeth Evileen Massey (1864-1960), known as the Massey Sisters, were two Welsh artists and botanists who created a unique record of the plant-life of Anglesey in the late 19th and early ...
, were two Welsh artists and botanists who created a unique record of the plant-life of Anglesey in the late 19th and early 20th century; they lived at Cornelyn Manor, near Llangoed.
*
John L. Williams (1924–2004), a Welsh nationalist activist was born in Llangoed
References
External links
photos of Llangoed and surrounding area on geograph
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