Cae Gwyn and Ffynnon Bueno Caves

Nearest town:
Denbigh (7km SSW)
OS reference:
SJ085725
OS sheet:
116
Latitude:
53° 14' 28.55 N
Longitude:
3° 22' 16.5 W
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Image of Cae Gwyn and Ffynnon Bueno Caves by postman

Looking out of Ffynnon Bueno cave. ( my 1000th picture )

Image credit: Chris Bickerton
postman
postman May 7, 2007

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Cae Gwyn and Ffynnon Bueno Caves

postman
postman May 7, 2007

located a little uphill behind a cafe type place named after one of the caves ( Ffynnon Bueno ). A footpath goes by the caves but for access you’ll have to ask at the cafe/house. The interior is blocked off by thick bars but you can see inside well enough. Cae Gwyn cave is covered with bushes and was on the other side of a fence which I was reluctant to climb with two small children.

Folklore

Cae Gwyn and Ffynnon Bueno Caves
Cave / Rock Shelter
Rhiannon
Rhiannon May 27, 2010

At the back of the house [known as Ffynnon Beuno] ran a narrow valley which terminated in the Craig Fawr (Great Rock). [...] Tremeirchion, literally translated, means the Maiden’s Town, and was so named from a convent which stood in its vicinity, and was supposed to be the refuge chosen by St. Winifred, when she retired with a company of virgins after her revivification by good St. Beuno at Holywell. Compared with the famous spring of St. Winifred’s at Holywell, that of St. Beuno is a modest affair, and boasts of no virtues beyond purity and sweetness. The water is collected in a stone tank adjoining the house of Ffynnon Beuno, and is allowed to escape, for the benefit of the villagers, through the open mouth of a rude representation of a human head, which is affixed in the front wall.

From the Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909) – as in ‘Livingstone-I-presume’-Stanley, who as a boy spent some miserable time in the nearby workhouse at St Asaph. Ffynnon Bueno is ‘Beuno’s Spring’, whereas Cae Gwyn is ‘White Field’ (maybe even with a touch of white = pure and spiritual, who knows).

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