LLANGAR, or LLANGAER (LLAN-GAR), a parish, in the union of CORWEN, hundred of EDEYRNION, county of MERIONETH, NORTH
WALES, 1 mile (S. W.) from Corwen; containing 250 inhabitants. The name of this place, signifying " the church of the
camp," is most probably derived from an ancient fortification which formerly occupied the summit of a hill called Cern
Wen, in the immediate vicinity of the church, and of which there are still some vestiges, though nothing is known of its'
origin or history. The parish is pleasantly situated near the confluence of the rivers Dee and Alwen, and on the turnpike-
road from Corwen to Bala; it comprises about thirteen hundred acres of inclosed arable and pasture land, and an extensive
tract of common and waste, producing abundance of peat, which is the principal fuel of the inhabitants. The surrounding
scenery is agreeably diversified with lofty hills and pleasing vales. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the
king's books at £5. 7. 11.; patron, Bishop of St. Asaph: the tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £233. 4.,
subject to rates, averaging £8 per annum; and there is a glebe of six acres. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a
neat ancient edifice, in the early style of English architecture. Five children of this place are eligible for gratuitous
instruction in the school at the village of Cynwyd, in the parish of Gwyddelwern, under the will of Hugh Roberts, who
bequeathed a sum of money for the support of that school, in 1807; and two poor women are fully clothed annually by
Colonel Vaughan, of Rig, under Mrs. Lumley Salesbury's charity, at Coilwen.