Sir John Wynn made the family one of the leading families of North Wales in the early 1600’s. His bookThe History of the Gwydir Familywas intended to assert his claim to an earlier royal ancestry. His son Richard was a Royalist who entertained King Charles I at Gwydir in 1645. ...
Maredudd's descendants favoured other family homes, like that atGwydir Castle, and Dolwyddelan gradually fell into disuse, eventually becoming a romantic ruin much favoured by landscape artists. The great chamber The ruins are in a remarkably good state of preservation, thanks mainly to the efforts...