Qualla: Bodorgan https://qualla.com/bodorgan 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: Bodorgan https://qualla.com/bodorgan Bodorgan: Introduction https://qualla.com/bodorgan/ On paper, Bodorgan is a community of about 1,700 people on Anglesey's south-western edge. On the ground, it is something more diffuse - a railway halt, a few terraces of cottages, a clutch of hamlets named Bethel and Llangadwaladr and Hermon, all loosely orbiting the wooded park of Bodorgan Hall. According to the 2011 census, more than two-thirds of residents speak Welsh. It is the kind of place where a community councillor first elected when he was 21 can still be on the council seventy years later, and people will simply say he is good at it.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/bodorgan-wp/gcky-bodorgan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bodorgan: Seventy Years on the Council https://qualla.com/bodorgan/ In December 2025, the BBC's Welsh-language news service ran a quiet story about a man called Myfyr Davies, a 93-year-old community councillor from Bodorgan who was being honoured for serving on his local council for more than seventy years. He had first been elected at 21. He had...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/bodorgan-wp/gcky-bodorgan-seventy-years-on-the-council.mp3 0:06 2 full Bodorgan: The Estate at the Centre https://qualla.com/bodorgan/ Bodorgan Hall, the largest country estate on Anglesey, sits at the heart of the community. Its Grade II* listed park spreads down to the Malltraeth estuary, and its terraces, deer park, walled gardens and circular brick dovecote dominate the local landscape. The village of Hermon...

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