Ruth Bidgood (née Jones; 20 July 1922 – 4 March 2022) was a Welsh poet and local historian who wrote in English.
[2] Bidgood's Welsh-speaking father, Rev William Herbert Jones, became vicar of St Mary's Church, Aberavon,[3] where Ruth was brought up.
She was educated at a grammar school in Port Talbot, and went on to read English at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
[5] During the 1960s, she became concerned about the construction of reservoirs and introduction of forestries in mid Wales, which she felt adversely affected the life of the region; this influenced her 1970 collection, The Zombie-Makers.
[6] In the 1970s, after her husband had left her,[2] she made her home permanently at the bungalow, and began publishing poetry and researches into local history.