The nationalist movement has always held Owain Glyndwr in high regard, but he is now a figure of mass culture in Wales, with statues and monuments alongside pub and street names commemorating him.

Born in about 1350, Owain held at Glyndyfrdwy near Corwen, and Sycharth near Chirk, remnants of the patrimony of his ancestors. Glyndŵr was a man of the borderland. Sycharth is only a mile from ...