Qualla: Kidwelly https://qualla.com/kidwelly 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: Kidwelly https://qualla.com/kidwelly Kidwelly: Introduction https://qualla.com/kidwelly/ There is a field on the edge of Kidwelly called Maes Gwenllian. It is unremarkable now - hedges, sheep, a wood beyond - but the name preserves what happened there in 1136. Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd, princess of Gwynedd and wife of the Welsh lord Gruffydd ap Rhys, led an army into battle here against a Norman force from the castle. Her husband was away raising allies. The Welsh lost. Gwenllian and her son Morgan were killed. For centuries afterwards Welsh warriors went into battle with the cry "Revenge for Gwenllian," and the town that grew up beside the castle she had marched against still carries her name in its community centre and its memory.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/kidwelly-wp/gchy-kidwelly-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kidwelly: Cetgueli, Cyd-gweli https://qualla.com/kidwelly/ The Welsh monk Nennius, writing in the 9th century, recorded the name as Cetgueli - the earliest spelling on record. What it means has been argued for centuries. One reading takes it as the kingdom of a forgotten chieftain called Cadwal. Another sees the Welsh words Cyd and Gweli...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/kidwelly-wp/gchy-kidwelly-a-castle-built-for-holding.mp3 0:06 3 full Kidwelly: Gwenllian's Field https://qualla.com/kidwelly/ Gwenllian was the daughter of Gruffudd ap Cynan, prince of Gwynedd, and sister of Owain Gwynedd. She married Gruffydd ap Rhys of Deheubarth - the Welsh prince whose grandfather had ruled all of southwest Wales before the Norman conquest. In late 1135 Gruffydd travelled north to s...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/kidwelly-wp/gchy-kidwelly-gwenllians-field.mp3 0:06 4 full Kidwelly: Tinplate and Tinkers https://qualla.com/kidwelly/ Industry came late to Kidwelly. A tinplate works was set up just north of the town in 1737, only the second such works in Britain, and the trade gradually transformed the place from a quiet market town into a working one. The works ran for two centuries before closing in 1941, an...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/kidwelly-wp/gchy-kidwelly-tinplate-and-tinkers.mp3 0:06 5 full Kidwelly: The Town Today https://qualla.com/kidwelly/ Kidwelly has 3,689 residents, a fourteenth-century town gate and bridge, a quay that has become a nature reserve, and a rugby club founded in the 1880s that produced Ray Gravell, the rugged centre who won 23 caps for Wales. The West Wales Line runs through, with trains east to Sw...

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