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We often visited the tiny market town of Corwen before we came to live permanently in Wales. We would invariably stop there for a coffee - en route to other places like Bala or Dolgellau. In fact Corwen is one of those towns you are more likely to pass through than to visit for its own sake. All that will no doubt change when the proposed [=dreamed of?] extension to the Llangollen vintage steam railway is completed, linking the two towns. Corwen is proud of its connections to Wales’s freedom-fighter Owain Glyndwr, who set up camp nearby in 1165, when in revolt against Henry II of England. It is reported that the English soldiers went home, unable to suffer the Welsh weather. Corwen is the nearest town of any size to Glyndwr’s actual home - hence the statue. This one replaced an earlier commission (inset) which caused a public outcry when it was unveiled. Where is the “dwarf in wellies” now, I wonder.
We often visited the tiny market town of Corwen before we came to live permanently in Wales. We would invariably stop there for a coffee - en route to other places like Bala or Dolgellau. In fact Corwen is one of those towns you are more likely to pass through than to visit for its own sake. All that will no doubt change when the proposed [=dreamed of?] extension to the Llangollen vintage steam railway is completed, linking the two towns. Corwen is proud of its connections to Wales’s freedom-fighter Owain Glyndwr, who set up camp nearby in 1165, when in revolt against Henry II of England. It is reported that the English soldiers went home, unable to suffer the Welsh weather. Corwen is the nearest town of any size to Glyndwr’s actual home - hence the statue. This one replaced an earlier commission (inset) which caused a public outcry when it was unveiled. Where is the “dwarf in wellies” now, I wonder.
