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{{Infobox UK place
| coordinates                 = {{coord|51.487494|-3.502011|display=inline,title}}
| country                     = Wales
| official_name               = Llangan
| welsh_name                  = Llanganna
| community_wales             = Llangan
| unitary_wales               = [[Vale of Glamorgan]]
| lieutenancy_wales           = [[South Glamorgan]]
| constituency_westminster    = [[Vale of Glamorgan (UK Parliament constituency)|Vale of Glamorgan]]
| constituency_welsh_assembly = [[Vale of Glamorgan (Assembly constituency)|Vale of Glamorgan]]
| post_town                   = [[Bridgend]]
| postcode_area               = CF
| postcode_district           = CF35
| dial_code                   = 01446
| os_grid_reference           = SS958775
| population                  = 702
| population_ref              = (2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11125898&c=CF35+5DL&d=16&e=62&g=6494405&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1428592525075&enc=1|title=Community population 2011 |access-date=9 April 2015}}</ref>
| static_image                = St Canna's Church, Llangan.JPG
| static_image_width          = 240px
| static_image_caption        = St Canna's Church, Llangan
}}
'''Llangan''' ({{langx|cy|Llanganna}}) is a small village and [[community (Wales)|community]] in the [[Vale of Glamorgan]], Wales. It is located approximately {{convert|4|mi|km}} outside the market town of [[Cowbridge]]. As a community it contains the settlements of [[St Mary Hill]], Treoes and Llangan itself. It is in the [[historic counties of Wales|historic county]] of [[Glamorgan]].
[[File:Llangan School - geograph.org.uk - 341127.jpg|thumb|left|Llangan School]]
Llangan became an important religious site in the late 18th century due to the work and preaching of its church's vicar [[David Jones, Llangan|David Jones]], an early supporter of Calvinistic Methodism in Wales.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| editor3-first=Baines |editor3-last=Menna|editor4-first=Peredur I. |editor4-last=Lynch|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press|location=Cardiff |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6|page=492}}</ref>
== Notable people ==
* [[Joshua Parry]] (1719–1776), a Welsh nonconformist minister and writer, born in Llangan.<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Parry, Joshua |volume= 43 |last=  Smith |first= Charlotte Fell |author-link= Charlotte Fell Smith |pages = 381-382 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[David Jones (Llangan)|David Jones]] (1736–1810), a Welsh Anglican priest, settled in Llangan in 1767.
* [[John Prichard]] (1817–1886), a Welsh architect in the neo-Gothic style, born in Llangan.<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-PRIC-JOH-1817|last=Ellis|first=Megan|title=John Prichard|access-date=20 April 2016}}</ref>
* [[Noel Forbes Humphreys]] (1890–1918), a Welsh rugby union international, born in Llangan Rectory.<ref name="CWGC">[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/502470 Commonwealth War Graves Commission]</ref>
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[http://www.llangancouncil.co.uk Llangan Community Council Website]
*[http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=Llangan&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title Google maps]
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[[Category:Villages in the Vale of Glamorgan]]
[[Category:Communities in the Vale of Glamorgan]]