Gregynog is a historic house with Grade 1 listed gardens set in the heart of rural Montgomeryshire. One of Wales’ premier country estates, and the former home of art collectors and public benefactors Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, it offers a welcoming setting in which people of all ages and abilities may discover, experience, participate in, and be inspired by the arts and natural environment.
It is one of Wales’s most unexpected hidden treasures, whose name has echoed down the years since the first elusive references to it by the 12thcentury poets of the Welsh princes.
Surviving into the twenty-first century, however, presents different challenges from those presented by the nineteenth or even the twentieth century. The age of the poets, the age of the Tudors, the age of the Squires, the age of the Victorian entrepreneurs, the age of the benevolent Davies sisters, the Ladies of Gregynog, are all long gone. Now, the age of the University, which began in 1960 when Margaret Davies bequeathed Gregynog to the University of Wales as an inter-collegiate conference centre, is about to undergo fundamental change which we hope will lead to a new and optimistic age of sustainability, accessibility and creativity which will ensure Gregynog’s survival as the beating heart of mid Wales.
