LLANHARY (LLAN-ARAU), a parish, in the union of BRIDGEND-AND-COWBRIDGE, hundred of COWBRIDGE, county of GLAMORGAN, SOUTH
WALES, 4 miles (N. N. a.) from Cowbridge; containing 268 inhabitants. The lands of the parish are generally inclosed, and
in a good state of cultivation; and a portion of its substrata consists of coal of good quality, which is worked for the
supply of the immediate neighbourhood. The living is a discharged rectory, rated in the king's books at £5. 12. 8f.;
present net income, X120; patron, Richard Hoare Jenkins, Esq. The church is dedicated is St. Arau. There is a place of
worship for Independents, who have also a Sunday school, in which about 70 males and females, partly adults, are
instructed gratuitously. Mr. Gibbon, of Newton House, near Cowbridge, bequeathed £200, the interest of which is annually
distributed among the poor, shortly after Christmas; being a portion of a benefaction of £500 left by that gentleman, and
the residue of which he directed to be divided equally among the parishes of Llanharan, Llantrissent, and Llanblethian.