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Llangernyw

This quiet Denbighshire village was the birthplace, in 1852, of Sir Henry Jones, who became known as “the cobbler philosopher”. Born the son of a local shoemaker, Henry Jones left school at the age of 12 to become apprenticed to his father but, after the long working day, Henry continued his studies well into the evenings. His hard work paid off, and he won a scholarship to train as a teacher, and then went on to study philosophy before eventually becoming Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University. A well-known and highly regarded academic, and a widely acclaimed lecturer on social affairs and liberalism, Henry received his knighthood in 1912, and was made a Companion of Honour in 1922. He died in the same year. Though Sir Henry is buried in Glasgow, this village has not forgotten its local hero. In 1934, Jones’ childhood home, Y Cwm, was purchased by a fund set up to honour his memory and his work. Today, the Sir Henry Jones Museum takes visitors on a tour through the family house – the tiny kitchen and bedroom where the family lived and shoemaker’s workshop where Henry and his father worked.

The whitewashed Parish Church of St Digian dates from the 13th century, though it was much restored in the 1800s. In the churchyard is the Llangernyw Yew. The oldest known tree in Wales, and one of the oldest living things in the world, the yew is estimated to be over 3, 000 years old. An old legend says that every Easter and on the 31 July each year the angel of death – known as the Angelystor in Welsh – appears beneath the tree’s boughs and solemnly announces the names of the people of the parish who will die within the next six months. A story is told of one Shôn ap Robert, who mocked the legend while drinking in a local pub. His friends challenged him to visit the yew tree on the next 31 July, and he took up the challenge. The first name he heard as he approached the tree was his own, and though he declared jokingly that he was not yet ready to die, within six months he was being buried in the churchyard.