Photo: Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Memorial, a viewpoint near Machynlleth, the Powys, mid Wales. — © Christine Johnstone / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Wynford Vaughan-Thomas Memorial

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The broadcaster and wartime BBC correspondent Wynford Vaughan-Thomas is remembered by a bronze figure of himself on the high mountain road between Machynlleth and Llanidloes, above Dylife. Set up as a toposcope and unveiled in 1990, he stands pointing north towards Snowdon across a huge sweep of the Cambrian Mountains. It’s right by the roadside at one of the great viewpoints in mid Wales, with room to pull in.

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