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
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.
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
Trawsfynydd
…and at the nearby power station. The film First Knight (1995) had scenes filmed around Llyn Trawsfynydd. Trawsfynydd was the home of the Welsh bard Hedd Wyn (1887–1917), who died during the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, six weeks before his poem won the Bard's Chair at that year's National Eisteddfod…
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