Qualla: Carreglwyd https://qualla.com/carreglwyd 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: Carreglwyd https://qualla.com/carreglwyd Carreglwyd: Introduction https://qualla.com/carreglwyd/ Six hundred years is a long time for one family to hold one piece of land. The grey-stone house at Carreglwyd on the northwest corner of Anglesey has been the home of the same lineage - Griffiths to Carpenter, by marriage and inheritance - since the early 15th century. The Tudors of Penmynydd lost it during the Glyndŵr rebellion. The Griffiths of Penrhyn picked up not just Carreglwyd but 27 other Anglesey estates whose Welsh owners had died in the fighting. The current hall went up in 1634. The family is still here. And the archive of letters, deeds, accounts and household notes accumulated over those six centuries is now lodged at Bangor University, where it forms the oldest continuous estate record in northwest Wales.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/carreglwyd-wp/gckz-carreglwyd-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carreglwyd: Welsh Soft Mutations https://qualla.com/carreglwyd/ The name 'Carreglwyd' translates as 'grey rock' - carreg meaning stone, with lwyd a soft mutation of llwyd, the Welsh word for grey. Welsh place names usually do this kind of geographic work, describing landscape rather than commemorating people. The estate sits about a kilometre...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/carreglwyd-wp/gckz-carreglwyd-welsh-soft-mutations.mp3 0:06 2 full Carreglwyd: Marrying Into Land https://qualla.com/carreglwyd/ Country estates grew by marriage, and Carreglwyd grew several times. In 1755, John Griffiths married Mary Trygarn, heiress to two neighbouring estates - the Trygarns of Llŷn and the Hollands of Berw. The couple's joined initials are still visible on a lead cistern dated 1763 in t...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/carreglwyd-wp/gckz-carreglwyd-marrying-into-land.mp3 0:06 3 full Carreglwyd: The Archive https://qualla.com/carreglwyd/ What makes Carreglwyd particularly important to Welsh historians is what is not on display. For six centuries the Griffiths kept their letters, leases, marriage settlements, account books, sermons, household lists and political correspondence. Most family archives this old have b...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/carreglwyd-wp/gckz-carreglwyd-the-archive.mp3 0:06 4 full Carreglwyd: Wedding Venue and Electronic Festival https://qualla.com/carreglwyd/ Old country houses survive in the 21st century by finding new uses. Since 2010 Carreglwyd has hosted weddings, and since the same year it has been home to Gottwood - an electronic music festival now drawing 5,000 attendees who camp on the estate grounds for a long weekend in June...

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