Qualla: Goodwick https://qualla.com/goodwick 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/h/r/goodwick-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Goodwick https://qualla.com/goodwick Goodwick: Introduction https://qualla.com/goodwick/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0. On 22 April 1912, Denys Corbett Wilson nudged his Bleriot XI down the slope above Goodwick's Harbour Village, opened the throttle, and lifted into the air over Fishguard Bay. One hour and forty minutes later he came down in a field near Enniscorthy in County Wexford. It was the first successful aeroplane flight between Britain and Ireland, and it lasted about as long as a modern Stena Line ferry takes to cross the same stretch of sea today. The bay he climbed from is sheltered on its southeast side by a wooded hillside that the Vikings, looking for a calm anchorage in the late tenth century, called godr vik.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/goodwick-wp/gchr-goodwick-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Goodwick: Good Bay or Good Wood https://qualla.com/goodwick/ Photo credit Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Norse origin of Goodwick's name is the more famous theory: godr meaning good, vik meaning bay or cove, a formation identical to Reykjavik's smoking bay. There is, however, a competing Welsh etymology. The hillside above the town is naturally well-wooded because it faces south...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/goodwick-wp/gchr-goodwick-good-bay-or-good-wood.mp3 0:06 2 full Goodwick: The Sands and the Surrender https://qualla.com/goodwick/ Photo credit Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0. Goodwick Sands sit at the head of the bay, a curve of beach where today's holidaymakers walk dogs. On 24 February 1797 this was where the last hostile foreign army on mainland British soil stacked its weapons. A French force of 1,400 men under the Irish American Colonel William T...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/goodwick-wp/gchr-goodwick-the-sands-and-the-surrender.mp3 0:06 3 full Goodwick: The Harbour That Almost Was https://qualla.com/goodwick/ Photo credit David Lally, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1887 work began on a railway and harbour, and Goodwick went from sleepy fishing village to building site. The Great Western Railway blasted 1.6 million tonnes of rock from the hillside to construct a 1,000-yard breakwater, and the quarried-out area became the quay. The harbour...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/goodwick-wp/gchr-goodwick-the-harbour-that-almost-was.mp3 0:06 4 full Goodwick: Today and Tomorrow https://qualla.com/goodwick/ Photo credit Tk420, CC BY-SA 4.0. The harbour now serves two Stena Line sailings a day to Rosslare on the MS Stena Nordica, alongside the all-weather lifeboat Blue Peter VII at the foot of the North Breakwater. Goodwick's railway station, closed to local passengers in 1964 and reopened in 2012, sits within walkin...

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