Llanfrothen

Llanfrothen
Llanfrothen is located in Gwynedd
Llanfrothen
Llanfrothen
Location within Gwynedd
Population437 
OS grid referenceSH 6229 4121
• Cardiff108.1 mi (174.0 km)
• London193.6 mi (311.6 km)
Community
  • Llanfrothen
Principal area
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPenrhyndeudraeth
PoliceNorth Wales
FireNorth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
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]

  1. ^ Bangor University Placenames Unit (Canolfan Bedwyr); Archived 12 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 9 May 2014
  2. ^ Google Maps (Map). Google.
  3. ^ Welsh Government website; 2011 Census Returns and stats; Archived 30 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine accessed 9 May 2014
  4. ^ 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.