A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
LLAN, a Welsh word used, both by itself and as a prefix, in topographical nomenclature. It signifies, primarily, a smooth area, an enclosure, or a place of meeting; secondarily, a church-place or village; and metonymically, a church. It very generally bears the last of these meanings in nomenclature; and very often takes the patron saint's name in conjunction with it to form the entire name of a place, as Llanafan or St. Avan's church, Llanbadrig or St. Patrick's church, Llanbedr or St. Peter's church.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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