Lôn Goed, also known as Y Lôn Goed, is a rural lane in Eifionydd, Gwynedd, Wales. Many Welsh writers have referred to it, including the poet R. Williams Parry. It is named after the two rows of trees either side of the lane. Lôn Goed starts in the hamlet of

Afon Wen Afon Wen is a small hamlet on the Llŷn peninsula in the Welsh principal area of Gwynedd. Location It is located at the mouth of the Afon Wen river, half a mile from the village of Chwilog and midway between Pwllheli and Cricieth. History ...

, on the

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main road about half a mile to the south of

Chwilog Chwilog is a village in Eifionydd on the Llŷn Peninsula in the Welsh county of Gwynedd. It forms part of the community of Llanystumdwy. The name means 'abounding in beetles' and was perhaps transferred from an earlier name of the river (o ...

and half-way between

Cricieth Criccieth ( cy, Criccieth ) is a town and community on the Llŷn Peninsula in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd in Wales. The town lies west of Porthmadog, east of Pwllheli and south of Caernarfon. It had a population of 1,826 in 2001, reducing ...

and

Pwllheli Pwllheli () is a market town and community of the Llŷn Peninsula ( cy, Penrhyn Llŷn) in Gwynedd, north-western Wales. It had a population of 4,076 in 2011 of whom a large proportion, 81%, are Welsh speaking. Pwllheli is the place where Plaid ...

. Afon Wen lies on a river of the same name, near where it reaches the sea. The lane was created between 1819 and 1828 in order to promote the carriage of

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and

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. It runs for about five miles, at first north-east then in a northerly direction, from Afon Wen to Hendre Cennin (Mynydd y Cennin). It is also referred to locally as "Lôn Môn", a corruption of the name Maughan. In his poem 'Eifionydd', R. Williams Parry praises the beauty and "perfect peace" of Lôn Goed, contrasting it with the "ugliness of Gain." The writer from Eifionydd,

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refers to it in his work too, e.g. in his book ''Pigau'r Sêr.''

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