Bron-Y-Aur

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Bron-Y-Aur, or Bron-Yr-Aur, is a small hamlet in Gwynedd, Wales, at grid reference SH735026, on a hilltop overlooking the Dovey Valley, about 3 km north-west of Machynlleth. Its name, pronounced [brɔn][ər][aɪr], means golden breast or gold(en) hill breast in Welsh.

The rock band Led Zeppelin spent time there in 1969-1970, during the recording of their Led Zeppelin III album. They subsequently used the name of the village in the title of two different songs, "Bron-Yr-Aur", a tour-de-force by Jimmy Page on the twelve-string guitar, which appeared on the album Physical Graffiti, and "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp", a country music inflected hoedown, released on Led Zeppelin III, in which Robert Plant waxes lyrical about walking in the woods with his blue eyed merle dog named Strider, allegedly after a character in The Lord of the Rings.