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14-457: Lôn Goed starts in the hamlet of Afon Wen , on the A497 main road about half a mile to the south of Chwilog and halfway between Criccieth and Pwllheli . Afon Wen lies on a river of the same name, near where it reaches the sea. The lane runs for about five miles (8 km), at first north-east then in a northerly direction, from Afon Wen to Hendre Cennin on the slopes of Mynydd Cennin . The lane

28-470: A song belittling the police's unsuccessful attempts to catch those responsible. In 1990, several detectives visited his home and he was arrested along with his partner, Anna, after they discovered a package hidden in a wall on his cottage's land. He was held at the police station in Dolgellau for 48 hours before being released without charge. His C'mon Midffild! co-cast member, Mei Jones , was arrested at

42-640: A wooded lane by Sue Shields; this has since been republished. The Eifionydd writer J. G. Williams  [ cy ] refers to Lôn Goed in his work, including in his book Pigau'r Sêr . Afon Wen Afon Wen is a small hamlet on the Llŷn peninsula in the Welsh principal area of Gwynedd . It is located at the mouth of the Afon Wen river , half a mile from the village of Chwilog and midway between Pwllheli and Cricieth . Afon Wen railway station

56-561: Is now part of the route of the newly re-opened Welsh Highland Railway . The section from Caernarfon to Bryncir has been converted into a footpath/cycleway that forms part of the National Cycle Network Route 8 (NCN8) and is known as Lôn Eifion . Lôn Goed is a rural lane used as a footpath, running about five miles (8 km) from Afon Wen to Hendre Cennin. It is celebrated by the poet R. Williams Parry (1884–1956) in his Welsh-language poem Eifionydd . Lôn Goed

70-419: Is used as a footpath, other than a short section that follows a minor road. The lane is also referred to locally as Lôn Môn , a corruption of the name Maughan , named after John Maughan, steward of Plas Hen (now Talhenbont) near Llanystumdwy, who helped rebuild the path with trees to help the water drainage system between 1819 and 1828. The lane was developed for the carriage of lime , coal and peat to

84-548: The entire piece of oak, instead of the usual method of cutting up and jointing the wood. The chair was won by the poet Alan Llwyd . Lôn Goed was the inspiration for the design of the bardic crown created by jeweller Elin Mair Roberts, which was awarded at the 2023 National Eisteddfod. R. Williams Parry's poem Eifionydd includes the couplet: A llonydd gorffenedig     Yw llonydd y Lôn Goed A perfected, accomplished quiet     Is

98-675: The farms of the Talhenbont estate, from materials landed from ships on the beach at Afon Wen. The use of the lane for transporting goods ended in the late 1800s after the opening of the Carnarvonshire Railway in 1862 between Brynkir railway station (Bryncir) and the Afon Wen railway station . The railway allowed goods to be transported by train instead of by horse and cart. In 1977–78, a Government employment scheme run by Gwynedd County Council's countryside service managed

112-586: The opera Dic Penderyn in 1977. He formed the musical group Crysbas after leaving college, and Sobin a'r Smaeliaid in 1988. He was voted the hunk of the month in She magazine during the 1980s. He began releasing albums with his band under his own name in 1994. He and his band later performed under the name Bryn Fôn a'r Band, releasing music under their own label laBelaBel. He won the song contest Cân i Gymru in 1997, with Un Funud Fach . In his later career, Fôn has concentrated on appearing on stage and also adapted

126-729: The play Blackbird for a production by Theatr Bara Caws in which he starred in 2010. At present, he performs with his own band. He is involved with numerous gigs yearly all over Wales, most particularly the Royal Welsh Show and the National Eisteddfod of Wales . A campaign of protest linked to the Welsh language movement began in December 1979, which involved burning down English-owned holiday homes in Wales. Fôn wrote

140-540: The quiet of Lôn Goed The literary editor Meic Stephens described Parry's poem as one of the most famous in the Welsh language, and as expressing the poet's love for the countryside of Eifionydd, and for Lôn Goed in particular, contrasting them with the quarrying district of the Nantlle Valley . In the 1970s the Welsh Arts Council published a poster of the poem that was illustrated by a painting of

154-574: The same time. In January 2011, it was announced that Bryn Fôn was one of a hundred people who had refused to pay their TV licences as part of the Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg protests against plans to cut the budget of the Welsh-language TV channel, S4C , and the plans to transfer control over the channel to the BBC . Fôn is also politically active in support of the Welsh language, and

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168-514: The trees along Lôn Goed. In February 2014, Storm Darwin made landfall in Gwynedd, after causing a record amount of damage in Ireland. The storm felled an 200-year-old oak tree on Lôn Goed, a piece of which donated by a local farmer to make the bardic chair for the 2023 National Eisteddfod of Wales in nearby Boduan . The chair was made by the sculptor Stephen Faherty, who formed it by carving

182-748: Was developed between 1819 and 1828 for the carriage of lime , coal and peat to the farms of the Talhenbont estate , from materials landed from ships on the beach at Afon Wen. Bryn F%C3%B4n Bryn Fôn (born 27 August 1954) is a Welsh actor and singer-songwriter. He also became the first ever artist to play live on BBC Radio Cymru in 1977. Bryn Fôn was born in Llanllyfni , Caernarfonshire . He attended Ysgol Gynradd Llanllyfni and Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle before going on to study physical exercise and environmental studies at college. He began his career in entertainment by taking part in

196-491: Was formerly a junction station on the Cambrian Coast Line , from where a connection could be made via the Carnarvonshire Railway (later LNWR and LMS ) to the north coast at Caernarfon . For many people the name of the place is synonymous with that line, as in the song Trên i Afon Wen by Welsh pop star Bryn Fôn . The line was closed in 1964, and the track lifted. Part of the line, from Caernarfon to Dinas,

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