Plas Cwmcynfelin

Plas Cwmcynfelin is currently a nursing home situated on the outskirts of Aberystwyth, Wales.

Historical Notes

" Cwmcynfelin is a house set in its own grounds overlooking Llangorwen. Matthew Davies owned the estate in the 1700s, and became High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1790. Rev Isaac Williams was born there in 1802; his autobiography starts: "I was born at Cwmcynfelyn, where my mother was in the habit of staying occasionally with her father, but my early years were mostly spent in London, from the fact of my father being engaged as a Chancery barrister in Lincoln's Inn." His father's name was Isaac Lloyd Williams. He goes on to write that he lived off Bloomsbury Square, with two older brothers and a younger sister. He went to Harrow and Trinity College, Oxford, and it was while he was up at Oxford in 1822 that he met John Keble, who was to have a significant effect on the direction of Isaac's life. He became deeply involved in Tractarianism, otherwise known as the Oxford Movement, of which you can find out a great deal via the Internet if you so desire! On Isaac's grandfather's death the Cwmcynfelyn estate was split between his mother and aunt, and he henceforth divided his time between there and London, until he died on May 1, 1865 at Stinchcombe, Gloucestershire. The 1895 Kelly's Directory showed Cwmcynfelyn as the seat of Mrs Bonsall, and nowadays it's a nursing home. "

Notable residents

• J. H. Davies (1871–1926), lawyer, bibliographer and educationist
• Tom Macdonald (1900–1980), journalist and novelist
• Rev. Isaac Williams (1802–1865), clergyman and lecturer at Oxford

External links

• Inspector's Report 28 September 2008
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