Hedd Ladd-Lewis, on Saturday 18th April, followed by a throng of adults, a few children, a variety of dogs and a pet lamb, began his much anticipated talk on the Ty Canol Woods area. The talk, arranged by the Brynberian Community Hall Committee, gathered below Carnedd Meibion Owen. "Despite the interest we never expected as many people," said Sandra Llewellyn in her introduction. The numbers grew while she spoke as people continued to arrive. Hedd Ladd-Lewis is an expert with a passion for his subject and an admirable ability to communicate to an audience. Under an April sun and cloudless sky the walkers, most from the Brynberian area, enjoyed perfect weather for the walk. Even as natives of Brynberian they gained fresh insights into this ancient region of history, myth and magic. Hedd, with his own family roots deep in the area, spoke first in Welsh (the language of most of those present) before translating into English. He spoke of his admiration for the ancient people, including those of the New Stone Age (the builders of Pentre Ifan Cromlech); the farmers desperately grubbing an existence over hundreds of years and those who sacrificed and lost so much during the First World War. He referred to the use of the trees of the area to build ships in Napoleonic times, pit props in the First World War and to sustain "the madness" of the trenches. Iron Age people valued iron so much, that it was only used in the life and death business of battle. In the Iron Age the massive rocks were moved and defensive walls erected by muscle power and with no use of iron tools. In ancient times the forest stretched about thirty miles into what is now the Irish Sea before it flooded during an earlier episode of global warming. In local cultures the inflow of water is recorded in the myths and legends.

Hedd spoke with feeling about the importance of the Welsh language and gave the old Welsh names for many of the present fields. He ended by saying that the area was unique and is so much more than the rare mosses and lichens on the surrounding rocks. An area such as this produces a sense of presence from its surroundings, its past and its ancient people. These were people who lived hard lives of grinding toil and they did not live in a fairy tale world. Their efforts produced what is around the Ty Canol area including the form of the woods. "When I walk in this area I think of these people from the past who lived here before us," said Hedd. "I think we owe it to them to respect and preserve their heritage."