Rhyd y Cyfarthfa the Ford of Barking: Washer at the Ford : Visit, talk and meditation.

In Denbighshire there is a parish which is called Llanferes, and there is there Rhyd y Gyfarthfa (the Ford of Barking).

 In the old days the hounds of the countryside used to come together to the side of that the ford to bark, and nobody dared go to find out what was there until Urien Rheged came. Urien Rheged,  warrior war leader of the Old North. And when he came to the side of the ford he saw nothing except a woman washing, the shadow woman. And then the hounds ceased barking, and Urien seized the woman and he had his will of her; and then she said “God’s blessing on the feet which brought thee here.” “Why?” said he. “Because I have been fated to wash here until I should conceive a son by a Christian. And I am daughter to the King of Annwfn, and come thou here…