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Population
  
732 (2011)

Country
  
Wales

Postcode district
  
CF61

Local time
  
Friday 2:16 AM

Ceremonial county
  
South Glamorgan

UK parliament constituency
  
Vale of Glamorgan

Principal area
  
Vale of Glamorgan

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Police
  
South Wales

Dialling code
  
01446

Post town
  
Llantwit Major

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Weather
  
11°C, Wind SE at 16 km/h, 84% Humidity

Jousting field at st donats castle wales


St Donats (Welsh: Sain Dunwyd) is a village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales, located just west of the small town of Llantwit Major. The community includes the village of Marcross and the hamlets of Monknash and East and West Monkton. It is named after the 6th-century saint, Dunwyd, a friend of Saint Cadoc. It has a population of 686.

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Map of St Donats, Llantwit Major, UK

St. Donat's church lies in a depression and is unremarkable from the exterior but contains Stradling family monuments in the Stradling chapel. It is a 12th-century Grade I listed building with a Grade I listed medieval cross in the churchyard.

The village is internationally known as the location of the 12th century St Donat's Castle which is now an international boarding school occupied by Atlantic College, the first of sixteen United World Colleges. Within the castle grounds lies St Donat's Arts Centre.

Saint Donat (Sveti Donat, Saint Donatus) (second half of 8th century - Zadar, Croatia first half of 9th century) was Dalmatian bishop and a diplomat of city of Zadar.

St donats castle courtyard


References

St Donats Wikipedia