Llanfrothen

Human settlement in Wales

Llanfrothen

Gwynedd

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List of places: UK; Wales; Gwynedd

52°57′02″N 4°03′04″W / 52.950548°N 4.051165°W / 52.950548; -4.051165

Llanfrothen (Welsh pronunciation^ⓘ) is a hamlet and community in the county of Gwynedd, Wales, between the towns of Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog and is 108.1 miles (174.0 km) from Cardiff.^[1]^[2] In 2011 the population of Llanfrothen was 437 with 70.1% of them able to speak Welsh.^[3]

Parc, a Grade II* Listed Building is within the community, as are the village of Garreg and the hamlet of Croesor.

The church at Llanfrothen is dedicated to St Brothen and is a Grade 1 listed building and is in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches

The church and parish achieved prominence throughout Wales in 1888 when David Lloyd George, then a young local solicitor, took a case involving burial rights in Llanfrothen churchyard on appeal to the Divisional Court of the Queen's Bench Division. The case became known as the Llanfrothen Burial Case [cy], and decision of the Divisional Court established the right of the family of a deceased nonconformist to have his body buried in the parish churchyard, by a Baptist minister, and without using the Anglican burial service.^[4]

References

^ Bangor University Placenames Unit (Canolfan Bedwyr); Archived 12 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 9 May 2014
^ Google Maps (Map). Google.
^ Welsh Government website; 2011 Census Returns and stats; Archived 30 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 9 May 2014
^ Stevens, Catrin (1 December 2002). "The 'Burial Question': Controversy and Conflict c. 1860–1890". The Welsh History Review. 21 (2). University of Wales Press: 328–356. doi:10.16922/whr.21.2.5.