Qualla: Abercych https://qualla.com/abercych en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/abercych-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Abercych https://qualla.com/abercych Abercych: Introduction https://qualla.com/abercych/ Photo credit Dylan Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0. In the First Branch of the Mabinogi, Pwyll Prince of Dyfed goes hunting in the valley of the Cuch and meets a stranger whose hounds are not the white-and-red of any earthly pack. The stranger is Arawn, king of Annwn, the Welsh otherworld. The hunt takes place exactly here, in the narrow wooded valley north of the Preseli Hills where the Afon Cych meets the Teifi. Abercych today is a single lane of fewer than a hundred houses, two pubs, two chapels, and a working sawmill, but local people will still tell you, quietly and without entirely committing to belief, that the river up the valley has not lost its strangeness.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/abercych-wp/gckb-abercych-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Abercych: Mouth of the Cych https://qualla.com/abercych/ Photo credit Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name says exactly what the village is. Aber, in Welsh, means the mouth or confluence of a river, and the Afon Cych empties into the Teifi just downstream of where the houses begin. Abercych sits at the tripoint where Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, and Ceredigion meet within ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/abercych-wp/gckb-abercych-mouth-of-the-cych.mp3 0:06 2 full Abercych: The Nag's Head https://qualla.com/abercych/ Photo credit mattbuck (category), CC BY-SA 3.0. Two pubs serve a village that on paper barely justifies one: The Penrhiw Inn and The Nag's Head. The Nag's Head was for years home to a microbrewery that produced its own ales for the bar, and the Guardian once named it among the top ten pubs in Pembrokeshire, an unlikely distinc...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/abercych-wp/gckb-abercych-the-nags-head.mp3 0:06 3 full Abercych: Clynfyw and the Bowen Family https://qualla.com/abercych/ Photo credit SELF, CC BY-SA 3.0. On the hillside above the village stands Clynfyw, a 16th-century mansion rebuilt in the 18th. Its estate records, going back to 1542, fill several shelves at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. Since the 1980s, Clynfyw has been run as a care farm, a Community Interest C...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/abercych-wp/gckb-abercych-clynfyw-and-the-bowen-family.mp3 0:06 4 full Abercych: Two Chapels https://qualla.com/abercych/ Photo credit The Red Fairy, CC BY-SA 4.0. The village has no parish church; for that you go down the lane to Manordeifi or up to St Dogwell. What Abercych has instead is two Nonconformist chapels, the standard tribal pairing of Welsh rural worship. Ramoth Baptist Chapel was built in 1827; Bryn Sion Independent Chapel, fo...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/abercych-wp/gckb-abercych-two-chapels.mp3 0:06 5 full Abercych: Annwn https://qualla.com/abercych/ Photo credit Dylan Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0. And then there is the river. The Cuch is small, fast, and shaded by oak and hazel, and in the First Branch of the Mabinogi, which was set down in writing in the 11th or 12th century from much older oral tales, this exact valley is where Pwyll of Dyfed meets the king of the otherw...

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