Llangeinor ( Welsh: ''Llangeinwyr'') is a small village (and community council

electoral ward A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected t ...

) located in the

Garw Valley Garw Valley () is a community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Bridgend County Borough, South Wales. As the name suggests, it follows and encompasses the valley of the River Garw. The community includes the village of Blaengarw ...

around north of

Bridgend Bridgend (; or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in the Bridgend County Borough of Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The town is named after the Old Bridge, Bridgend, medieval bridge over the River Og ...

Bridgend County Borough Bridgend County Borough () is a county borough in the south-east of Wales. The county borough has a total population of 139,200 people, and contains the town of Bridgend, after which it is named. Its members of the Senedd are Sarah Murphy ...

, Wales. The ward population taken at the 2011 census was 1,243. The entire village is now protected as part of a conservation area.

Economy

IRVIN-GQ IrvinGQ, formerly known as ''Airborne Systems'', is an aerospace manufacturing company based in Llangeinor, Wales, United Kingdom. It specialises in the design, manufacture and supply of a range of parachutes and emergency, rescue and survival ...

, part of Airborne Systems Group, makes parachutes for the military, near the junction of the A4093 with the main road A4064. GQ Parachutes had been formed in 1932.

Governance

At the local level Llangeinor is an

to Garw Valley Community Council, electing two of the 13 community councillors. Llangeinor was formerly also an electoral ward for

Bridgend County Borough Council Bridgend County Borough Council () is the governing body for Bridgend County Borough, one of the principal areas of Wales. History Bridgend County Borough and its council came into effect from 1 April 1996, following the '' Local Government (W ...

, from 1995 electing one county councillor. From 1995 to 2017, it was represented by the Labour Party . From 2004 to 2017, Labour county councillor, Marlene Thomas, represented the ward. In 2012, Thomas was elected Mayor of Bridgend County Borough and served until 2013. Since 2017, the Llangeinor ward has been represented by Cllr. Roz Stirman, who was elected as an independent councillor, but later defected to Plaid Cymru. A 2019 review of electoral wards in the borough by the

Boundary Commission for Wales In the United Kingdom, the boundary commissions are non-departmental public bodies responsible for determining the boundaries of parliamentary constituencies for elections to the House of Commons. There are four boundary commissions: one each f ...

proposed merging Llangeinor with the southern part of the

Pontycymmer Pontycymer, also spelt Pontycymmer, is a former mining village in Wales. It is situated in the Garw Valley, in Bridgend County Borough, about 7 miles or 11 km north of the town of Bridgend. Its attractions include Bridgend Valleys Rail ...

ward to form a new ward called Lower Garw. This proposal was rejected, however, and Llangeinor has since 2022 formed part of the three-member

ward.

Transport

The A4064 road runs through the village; to the south this leads to

Tondu Tondu () is a village in Bridgend County Borough, Wales, located about north of the town of Bridgend, in the community of Ynysawdre. Tondu lies on the A4063 from Bridgend to Maesteg, and was established in the late 18th century as a coal mini ...

, and to the north it heads to

Pontycymer Pontycymer, also spelt Pontycymmer, is a former mining village in Wales. It is situated in the Garw Valley, in Bridgend County Borough, about 7 miles or 11 km north of the town of Bridgend. Its attractions include Bridgend Valleys Rail ...

. The A4093 road starts in the village and heads east over the mountain to the Ogmore Valley. A disused railway runs through the village.

Sport

Llangeinor AFC Llangeinor Football Club are an association football club based in the village of Llangeinor near Bridgend, Wales. The club plays in both the and the Bridgend & District League in South Wales. Llangeinor have a history of football going back t ...

play in the Welsh Football League Second Division (as of 2008–09). Their ground is located to the west of the A4064 and river, and south-east of the railway level crossing, and just down the hill from by the main road in.

Notable people

Llangeinor was the home of

Richard Price Richard Price (23 February 1723 – 19 April 1791) was a British moral philosopher, Nonconformist minister and mathematician. He was also a political reformer and pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the F ...

(1723–1791), an internationally influential academic with notable contributions in the fields of moral philosophy, politics, theology and finance, as well as the mathematical subject of

bayesian probability Bayesian probability ( or ) is an interpretation of the concept of probability, in which, instead of frequency or propensity of some phenomenon, probability is interpreted as reasonable expectation representing a state of knowledge or as quant ...

, having edited and published

Thomas Bayes Thomas Bayes ( , ; 7 April 1761) was an English statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister who is known for formulating a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem. Bayes never published what would become his m ...

work.

References

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