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Llan (Welsh pronunciation: [ɬan]) and its variants (Breton: lan; Cornish: lann; Pictish: lhan; Irish and Scottish Gaelic: lann) are a common element of...

Llan may be: Llan (placename), a Celtic morpheme, or element, common in British placenames A short form for any placename beginning with "Llan". Llan...

China Łan, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland Lan (river), Belarus Llan (placename), a placename element known in Breton as lan LAN Airlines, former name of...

(disambiguation) Clansman (disambiguation) Klan (disambiguation) Ku Klux Klan Llan (placename element) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...

Kingdom county name etymologies Place name origins Place names in Ireland Placenames Database of Ireland Scottish toponymy Toponymy in the United Kingdom and...

of place names in Wales are Welsh by origin, containing elements such as Llan-, Aber-, Pen- etc. Along the south coast of Wales, where English has historically...

'white' (Welsh gwyn); in Vindolanda, Celtic *landā 'land, place' (Welsh llan). In Vindomora, second element could be 'sea' (Welsh môr, Irish muir): Vindobala...

among the most common placename elements in both Wales and Cornwall equating to English -ton, alongside Lan- equating to Welsh Llan- combined with the name...

Gogo [Tysilio of the cave]"), while Llan-vair-pwll-gwyn-gyll-goger-bwll-dysilio-gogo appears in a paper on placenames published in 1849, its author noting...

church here on a Celtic mound, upon which it still stands. The Welsh placename for Northop, Llaneurgain translates as "The holy enclosure of Eurgain"...

woods, the path climbs past the waterfalls of the Afon Llan to the glacial cirque of Cwm Llan, crossing a disused incline from an abandoned slate quarry...

Llanllwchaearn and of two parishes in Ceredigion. The placename presents a problem as it would be expected that the llan ("parish") would proceed the recognizable...

"monk-house", usually in the sense of monastic grange) in an area called Rhos y Llan ("heath of the churchtown"). St Tudwal is known to have built a priory on...

Flintshire. It originally comprised the seven townships of Cefn, Llan (or Tre'r Llan), Llystynhunydd (or Glust), Llys y Coed, Maes y Groes, Mechlas (or...

any ecclesiastical settlement, which would thenceforth be known as their llan. Such communities were organized on tribal models: founding saints were almost...

"Wizard's Glade". However, it is common for Welsh placenames to be based on the name of a saint (llan, meaning "church" or "parish", followed by the name...

across the country. As such, villages are often named for either a church or "Llan" associated with Bridget. These include the village, castle and parish of...

a population of slightly over 800. The name is derived from the Welsh placename elements "Caer-" and "Sŵs". "Caer" translates as "fort" and likely refers...

Glodrydd, who died in 1010AD, was possibly buried at Trelystan, as the Welsh placename could derive from Cappell Tref Elistan. This is first mentioned in the...

special significance, and the root chep is the same as that in other placenames such as Chipping Sodbury and Cheapside. The name is first recorded in...