Qualla: Criccieth https://qualla.com/criccieth 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/v/criccieth-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Criccieth https://qualla.com/criccieth Criccieth: Introduction https://qualla.com/criccieth/ Photo credit Skinsmoke, CC BY-SA 3.0. Three British prime ministers played the Criccieth golf course on the same day. Bonar Law, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill stood on the same nine-hole course on Caerdyni Hill, with the green of the penultimate hole seventy-five feet above its tee and the final hole only a hundred yards long with the green a hundred feet below it. It is the kind of small absurd detail that pins down everything about Criccieth - a Welsh seaside town of fewer than two thousand people that produced one of the twentieth century's most consequential statesmen and that, for one strange afternoon, gathered three of his peers on the same coastal hill.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/criccieth-wp/gckv-criccieth-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Criccieth: The Two Castles https://qualla.com/criccieth/ Photo credit Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0. The headland that defines Criccieth carries the ruins of one of the most extraordinary castles in Wales - a fortress that began as a Welsh princely stronghold of the early thirteenth century, was captured by Edward I in 1283 during his conquest of Gwynedd, then burnt by Owain Gly...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/criccieth-wp/gckv-criccieth-the-two-castles.mp3 0:06 2 full Criccieth: Three Prime Ministers, One Golf Course https://qualla.com/criccieth/ Photo credit Skinsmoke, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Criccieth Golf Club opened in 1906, a nine-hole course on the upland behind the town with views all the way to Snowdonia. By the 1920s it had become one of Lloyd George's regular haunts - he had grown up two miles away in Llanystumdwy, returned to Criccieth as a young solicit...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/criccieth-wp/gckv-criccieth-three-prime-ministers-one-golf-course.mp3 0:06 3 full Criccieth: The Lloyd George Constellation https://qualla.com/criccieth/ Photo credit Skinsmoke, CC BY-SA 3.0. Lloyd George was born in Manchester in 1863 but his family moved to Llanystumdwy when he was an infant, and he spent his school years walking the lanes around Criccieth. He married Margaret Owen of Mynydd Ednyfed, a farm overlooking the town, in 1888. Their daughter Megan, born i...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/criccieth-wp/gckv-criccieth-the-lloyd-george-constellation.mp3 0:06 4 full Criccieth: The Welsh Town https://qualla.com/criccieth/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Criccieth is one of the strongest Welsh-language towns on the coast, with 64% of residents speaking Welsh at the 2011 census and 94% of pupils at Ysgol Treferthyr, the local primary, fluent in it. The National Eisteddfod was held here in 1975 - a marker of cultural prestige in mo...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/criccieth-wp/gckv-criccieth-the-welsh-town.mp3 0:06 5 full Criccieth: Cardigan Bay Holidays https://qualla.com/criccieth/ Photo credit Skinsmoke, CC BY-SA 3.0. What pulls visitors now is the same combination that pulled the Victorian holidaymakers: a south-facing beach safe enough for children, fish enough in the bay to keep sea anglers happy, ice cream from the original Cadwalader's parlour that opened on Castle Street in 1927, the cas...

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