Qualla: Aberaeron https://qualla.com/aberaeron en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Aberaeron https://qualla.com/aberaeron Aberaeron: Introduction https://qualla.com/aberaeron/ In the year 1800, this stretch of the Ceredigion coast was farmland and a few cottages at the mouth of a small river. There was no town. By 1807 there was an Act of Parliament. By 1830 there was a harbour, a square, a grid of streets, a customs house, and the rough outline of a planned Regency settlement that did not exist anywhere else in rural Wales. Aberaeron is one of the few towns in the country you can date almost to a single year, designed deliberately and from nothing by one ambitious clergyman with a large landholding and a clear architectural taste. Two centuries later, the candy-coloured Georgian houses around Alban Square are the principal reason people come.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/c/aberaeron-wp/gckc-aberaeron-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aberaeron: The Clergyman Who Built a Town https://qualla.com/aberaeron/ The Rev. Alban Thomas Jones Gwynne had amassed an extensive local landholding through his marriage. In 1807 he secured the Act of Parliament he needed to develop a port at the mouth of the River Aeron. He began building the harbour at once, and the harbour worked - steam ships st...

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