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St Athan (Sain Tathan) is a village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan in South Wales. The village and its parish church are dedicated to Saint Tathan. The church dates to the 13th–14th century, though an earlier church was dated to the Norman period. The village and the adjacent dormitory village of Eglwys Brewis are known primarily for the MOD St Athan RAF base. There are two pubs in the village, as well as a football team at St Athan Football Club and the St Athan Golf Club. The community includes West Aberthaw.

Legend holds that Tathan was an Irish monk who was in a boat which ran aground at Portskewett, after being blown across the Bristol Channel, around 540 AD. He founded a monastery and school and is said to have been buried in the orchard of the vicarage at Caerwent. However, somewhat confusingly, a Tathan the Younger is said to be buried at St Athan Parish Church, although the exact location of the grave is unknown. The early history of the parish of Eglwys Brewis records that it was situated in the manor of St Athan and was held by the same lordship as that of Castleton. The Castleon manor existed in St Athan from the Norman period under the lordship of the Nerber family. Norman castles were later constructed in West Orchard and East Orchard as manorial residences. In 1320, a Richard de Nerber was said to have "retained only half a knight's fee at St Athan." However, from around 1240, the Berkerolles family appear to have received entitlements to the manorial estates of West and East Orchard and built a new manor house in West Orchard and later at East Orchard in 1377. The earlier Norman castles appear to have been destroyed by Ifor Bach. The Berkerolles family's influence grew stronger in the 14th century. Sir Roger Berkerolles died in 1351; a tomb is dedicated to him in the parish church, which also contains his parents' remains. The current church is mainly dated to the 14th century and it is thought the Norman church originally here was ordered to be rebuilt by the Berkerolles. Later, the manor fell under the Stradling family.</blockquote> In 1847, the village had a population of about 379 people. The village was served by St Athan Road railway station between 1892 and 1930. There is no longer any local rail connection. Although a settlement has existed at St Athan for over a thousand years, St Athan and its dormitory village of Eglwys Brewis significantly enlarged around the nearby MOD St Athan RAF base. This unit is home to the Special Forces Support Group, the DSG large aircraft maintenance unit and an element of the Defence College of Electro Mechanical Engineering. In 2010 it was announced that a proposed £14 billion defence training academy, which would have created 2,000 jobs, had been cancelled by the government as part of the 8% cut in the Strategic Defence and Security Review. On 11 February 2009 two Air Experience Flights by the Air Training Corps left RAF St Athan and collided in mid air, killing the pilots and two female Cadets. An investigation was launched. On 23 February 2016 Aston Martin announced that their new factory to build its DBX crossover model would be located on the airfield at St Athan. Construction of the 90 acre site would commence in 2017, with a total investment of $280 million and the creation of 750 jobs. The factory would be located in the existing buildings on the site. The U. S. state of Alabama, along with two UK sites and a Middle Eastern location, had been on Aston's shortlist for the factory. Aston unveiled the DBX at the 2015 Geneva Auto Show; DBX production will start in 2020 with an output of up to 5,000 units a year envisaged.

St Athan has a community council of 13 seats, including a chairperson, and separately one clerk. The council represents the three community wards of St Athan, Gileston and Flemingston. The chairperson sits at the top of the table, with deputy to chair's right and clerk to chair's left.

The community ward of St Athan includes the Village of St Athan and the Castleton Residential Park. The community ward of Flemingston includes the village of Flemingston, half the village of Eglwys Brewis (which is split between the Ex MOD housing estate West Camp, the Northern "Bird's Estate"), the East Camp Ex MOD housing estate which does not make up any village, the hamlet of New Barn and the area known as Beggars Pound. The community ward of Gileston covers the village of Gileston, the soon to be housing estate of the Old Boys Village, the houses collected within West Aberthaw and Limpert Bay.

See St Athan's Boys Village.

St Athan Primary School was first mentioned in 1847 and was located in what is now the Old Community Centre, built by the Rayers in about 1860. A new school was built in the mid 1960s and was inaugurated in September 1966. is located on Old Church Lane. The library is currently moving from County Council control to a Community Charity after a consultation took place between October and December 2014. There is also the local newspaper The Llantwit Major GEM. and the MOD St Athan magazine Tathan.

There are two pubs in the village, the Three Horse Shoes and The Roost on Rock Road. There is also a skate park and two community centres, one of which holds an annual fun day. The village has a football team and the St Athan Golf Club. St Athan is the poorest rural area in the Vale of Glamorgan.

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