Beddgelert
Beddgelert’s fame and popularity (apart from it’s beautiful location) is a small mound in the village called “Gelert’s Grave“. While this sad tale has been told throughout Europe for hundreds of years, it was the brainwave of David Pritchard, the 18th-century landlord of the nearby Goat Hotel, to connect it with the village to boost tourism. It worked! Beddgelert has a population of just over 600.
Gelert’s Grave
In the 13th Century Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, had a palace at Beddgelert. One day he went hunting without Gelert, “The Faithful Hound”, who was unaccountable absent.
On Lleywelyn’s return, the truant, stained and smeared with blood, joyfully sprang to meet his master. The Prince alarmed hastened to find his son and saw the infant’s cot empty, the bedclothes and floor covered with blood. The frantic father plunged his sword into the hound’s side thinking it had killed his heir. The dog’s dying yell was answered by a childs’s cry. Llewelyn searched and discovered his boy unharmed but near by lay the body of a mighty wolfe which Gelert had slain.
The Prince, filled with remorse, is said never to have smiled again. He buried Gelert here. The spot is called Beddgelert “The Grave of Gelert”.
Welsh Highland Railway Station at Beddgelert St. Marys Church, Beddgelert Path to Gelert’s Grave at Beddgelert Gelert’s Grave at Beddgelert Gelert’s Grave at Beddgelert Gelert’s Grave at Beddgelert Sculpture of the Dog “Gelert” at Beddgelert Beddgelert Beddgelert Beddgelert Beddgelert
The Map Shows The Village of Beddgelert (Top) and the Grave & Statue of Gelert at the Bottom. It also Shows The Route of the Welsh Highland Railway which has a Station in the Village.
