 Llwyndafydd is at the head of the romantic secluded valley called Cwn Tud(r). On his journey to Bosworth Field in 1485, Henry Tudor marched from Dale in Pembrokeshire to Cardigan, arriving 9th August. By the evening of that day he reached Llwyndafydd, and was entertained by Dafydd ap Ifan. Henry did not forget his host (nor, it was said, his host's daughter), and after his victory at Bosworth, the new King Henry VII sent Llwyndafydd a magnifiacnt drinking horn (Welsh Hirlas). This horn passed into possession of the Earl of Carberry of Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire. Such an isolated valley naturally attracted smugglers.
One of the best on the mysterious character Sion, who Lived on the moorland
beyond Synod Inn in the eighteenth century. A widely believed story is
that German submarines put into Cwm Tudu for fresh water during the First
World War.
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