Editing Cowbridge (section)

===Georgian times===
[[File:Cowbridge Clock Tower.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Cowbridge clock tower presented by the [[Bishop of Llandaff]] in 1836]]
The 18th century [[antiquary]], [[Iolo Morganwg]], inventor of the present-day rituals of the [[National Eisteddfod of Wales]], kept a bookshop in the High Street, the location of which is now marked with a plaque inscribed with the words ''Y Gwir yn erbyn y Byd'' ("Truth against the world") in [[Roman script|Roman]] and [[Coelbren y Beirdd]] script. It was just outside the town that he held the first meeting of the [[Gorsedd]], an assembly of bards, in 1795. [[Cowbridge Grammar School]] was founded in 1608 and had close links with [[Jesus College, Oxford]] through its later benefactor, Dr [[Leoline Jenkins]]. Its famous pupils included the poet [[Alun Lewis (poet)|Alun Lewis]] and the actor Sir [[Anthony Hopkins]]. The old [[grammar school]] eventually merged with Cowbridge High School for Girls to become a [[comprehensive school]], and the original buildings, having for some time lain derelict, have been converted into private accommodation.