Llanbadarn Fawr

It holds two electoral wards, Padarn and Sulien which elect a Ceredigion County Councillor each and several Llanbadarn Fawr Community Councillors. At the 2001 census its population as a community was recorded at 2,899, increasing to 3,380 at the 2011 census.

• Country — Wales • Constituency Welsh Assembly — Ceredigion Penfro • Official Name — Llanbadarn Fawr • Community Wales — Llanbadarn Fawr • Unitary Wales — Ceredigion • Lieutenancy Wales — Dyfed • Constituency Westminster — Ceredigion Preseli • Post Town — Aberystwyth • Postcode District — SY23 • Postcode Area — SY • Dial Code — 01970 • Os Grid Reference — SN599808 • Cardiff Distance Mi — 90 • Cardiff Distance — SE • Population — 3380 • Population Ref — (2011) • Static Image Width — 250px

Llanbadarn Fawr is named after the church of Padarn (the great church of Padarn), and dates from the sixth century. It predates Aberystwyth, whose castle was originally named after Llanbadarn. Notable buildings include Saint Padarn's Church, a fine, partly Romanesque parish church on the site of the mother church founded by Padarn (Paternus) in the 6th century and which contains notable 18th-century wall monuments. The Garreg Fawr stone slab, reputed to be the capstone of a now-vanished chamber tomb, is mounted on a plinth in Llanbadarn Fawr Square. This slab once stood on four upright stones before being fractured by fire in the 19th century, after which it was reassembled and mounted in its present location. There is also a windmill in Llain-y-gawsai. Llanbadarn Fawr has two pubs, The Black Lion and The Gogerddan Arms, and the University's Llanbadarn campus, which concentrates on subjects such as business, law, criminology and information science, and Coleg Ceredigion's Aberystwyth campus. Padarn United F.C. play their football in the Cambrian Tyres League. In the spring, summer and autumn months the village has train services provided by The Vale of Rheidol Railway to Devil's Bridge, Capel Bangor and Aberystwyth. The church is famous for its association with the 14th-century poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, in particular his poem The Girls of Llanbadarn. • Illustration — A map of Llanbadarn Fawr, c. 1800 • Illustration — The church, c. 1850 • Illustration — South entrance of the church • Illustration — Railway leading into Llanbadarn Fawr • Illustration — Gogerddan Arms pub

Much of the community falls within the electoral wards named Llandbadarn-Fawr-Padarn and Llandadarn-Fawr-Sulien. The total population of these wards is 3,380

In March 2024, the town joined the Dyfi Biosphere.

• Tradition has it that the poet Dafydd ap Gwilym (ca. 1315/1320 – ca. 1350/1370) was born within Llanbadarn Fawr parish, as it stood in the fourteenth century, at Brogynin, Penrhyn-coch. He wrote about the parish church in his poem "The Girls of Llanbadarn". This church can still be visited today. • John Rowlands (1824–1891), pen name, "Giraldus", was a Welsh antiquary and educator. He was born at Nanteos Arms.