Cwmdonkin Park in Swansea, the childhood park of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, is to receive a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £820,000 in order to return the park to its former Victorian glory.
The park, once described by Thomas as 'a world within the world of the sea town', opened in 1874. Located within the Ffynone Conservation Area, it forms part of the Dylan Thomas trail and attracts thousands of visitors each year.
Cwmdonkin Park in Swansea
The grant will help to restore the park's Victorian character, including the bowls pavilion, cockleshell path and water garden.
Volunteering opportunities will be created, with volunteers helping to run guided walks, poetry and writing sessions as well as contributing to conservation and gardening work.
The park is nearby Thomas' birthplace, 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, in the Uplands area of Swansea.
Learn more about Dylan Thomas' Wales on the BBC Wales Arts site and find out more about the other Welsh parks to have benefited from grants on the Heritage Lottery Fund website.
