Llanwnnog (also spelt Llanwnog) is a village in

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, Wales. It is located one-and-a half miles north of

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in the

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of the same name, on the B4568 road. The

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spell the name with a single 'n'.

Buildings

Llanwnog's parish church is St. Gwynnog's church. The antiquarian Elias Owen was curate here from 1871 to 1875, and in 1873, the church's

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was restored by J W Poundley and D Walker. Llanwnnog National School, built in 1850, was designed by the architect Thomas Penson.

Notable people

Llywelyn ab y Moel (died 1440), a poet and rebel in

Owain Glyndŵr Owain ap Gruffydd (28 May 135420 September 1415), commonly known as Owain Glyndŵr (Glyn Dŵr, , anglicised as Owen Glendower) was a Welsh people, Welsh leader, soldier and military commander in the Wales in the late Middle Ages, late Middle ...

's Uprising, was raised in the Llanwnnog area. The family of Oliver Mathews (the first historian of Caersws and

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) had "settled for many generations at Park in the parish of Llanwnog", and according to historian Richard Williams, Mathews may have been born there. Daniel Price, dean of St Asaph from 1696 until his death on 7 November 1706, was born in Llanwnnog. The Welsh romantic poet John Ceiriog Hughes is buried in the village churchyard in an ornamental grave with cast iron railings and a memorial plate. He was employed on the

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as stationmaster and Manager of the

Van Railway The Van Railway was a standard gauge railway in mid Wales. The line was built in 1871 to link the highly productive lead mines at Van, Llanidloes, Van, near Llanidloes to the main Cambrian Railways, Cambrian line at Caersws. The mines closed in ...

from 1868 until his death in 1887. Footballer brothers

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and Fred Watkins's father was from Llanwnnog.

References

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