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At about this time, in the fifth and sixth centuries, there was a growth of monastic communities associated with powerful families, comprising a church and simple dwellings within an enclosure (a llan). Here religious men led a life of prayer and frugality. Along the route of the coast path the most famous of these men was Padarn at Llanbadarn (on the edge of present-day Aberystwyth), this llan later developing into the abbey and important bishopric of Llanbadarn Fawr. Many disciples who came to these llans went on to set up further churches, associated with the founder. Thus of the St David foundations there is Llan-non, named after David’s mother St Non, and Llangrannog, named after St David’s grandfather Carannog.

St Crannog watches over Llangrannog village (Day 14)

The Norman Conquest and the Wars of Independence

In the following centuries various attempts were made to create a wider unity in Wales, as, for instance, by Rhodri Mawr (844–878), his grandson Hywel Dda (c900–950) and others, but without long-term success.