text: Davies' health continued to decline and he died in September 1940 at the age of 69. Never a churchgoer in adult life, he was cremated at the Bouncer's Lane Cemetery, Cheltenham, and his remains interred there.
  Glendower
  From 1949, Glendower was the home of the poet's great-nephew Norman Phillips. In 2003, following a heart attack, Phillips moved into supported accommodation. A support group of local residents, The Friends of Glendower, was established to raise funds for renovation, with the aims of enabling Phillips to return to the cottage and for it to be a commemoration of Davies' life and work. In 2012 signed copies of five of Davies' books were found during restoration, together with personal papers. By 2017, remedial work on the cottage was sufficiently advanced to allow Phillips to return.
  Literary style
  Davies's main biographer Stonesifer compared the realism, directness and simplicity of Davies' prose to that of Defoe and George Borrow. His style was described by Shaw as that of "a genuine innocent", while the biographer L. Hockey said, "It is as a poet of nature that Davies has become most famous; and it is not surprising that he should have taken nature as his main subject."
  For his honorary degree in 1926, Davies was introduced at the University of Wales by Professor W. D. Thomas. Thomas' citation attempted a summary of Davies' themes, style and tone: