Llyswen

How many of us have driven through Llyswen on a journey from north to south? Dreamt of being snowed in for a few days at Griffin Inn.

The Llys in its name refers to the court of Rhodri Mawrs sons. Rhodri was King of the Britons in the 9th century.  

The romantic radical and poet John Thelwall built himself a "hermitage" at Llyswen Farm during his exile in Wales. His friends William and Dorothy Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge visited him there in August 1798. The figure of "The Solitary" from Wordsworth's later poem 'The Excursion' is thought to be based on Thelwall in Llyswen.