Hedd Wyn
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Hedd Wyn was a Welsh-language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod. Evan
Ellis Humphrey Evans, c. 1910. Frontispiece in Cerddi'r Bugail (1918)
The "Lord Kitchener Wants You" recruitment poster from 1914.
The grave of Hedd Wyn at Artillery Wood Cemetery, Boezinge, Belgium.
The Black Chair (Y Gadair Ddu) is on permanent display at his family farm near Trawsfynydd
Trawsfynydd
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Trawsfynydd is a linear village in Gwynedd, Wales, near Llyn Trawsfynydd reservoir, and adjacent to the A470 north of Bronaber and Dolgellau and 10 km south of Blaenau Ffestiniog. It also neighbours t
Hedd Wyn
…to take the Bardic name Hedd Wyn (, "blessed peace") from the way sunlight penetrated the mist in the Meirionnydd valleys. Born in the village of Trawsfynydd, Wales, Evans wrote much of his poetry while working as a shepherd on his family's hill farm. His style, which was influenced by romantic poetry, was…
Fronwynion Street, Trawsfynydd
St Madryn's, Trawsfynydd Parish Church
Tankard handle from 2000 years ago, pre Roman
Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station from the rear of the facility.