Qualla: Laugharne https://qualla.com/laugharne 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: Laugharne https://qualla.com/laugharne Laugharne: Introduction https://qualla.com/laugharne/ Dylan Thomas called it a "timeless, mild, beguiling island of a town," and he meant the description literally. Laugharne sits on the Taf estuary in Carmarthenshire, suspended between marsh and sea, a place where the tide goes out so far it seems to forget to come back. Thomas lived in the Boat House on its cliff edge from 1949 until his death in 1953, and most readers have decided that the dreaming village of Llareggub in Under Milk Wood is essentially Laugharne with its name reversed. Spell it backwards. Thomas was not subtle. But Laugharne is older and stranger than its most famous resident, and the strangest thing about it may be that it is still governed by a medieval charter issued in 1291.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/laugharne-wp/gchy-laugharne-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Laugharne: The Last Medieval Town https://qualla.com/laugharne/ Laugharne Corporation is, with the City of London Corporation, one of the last two surviving medieval corporations in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1291 by Sir Guy de Brian, a Marcher Lord whose name is still toasted at the annual Portreeve's feast. The portreeve, swo...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/laugharne-wp/gchy-laugharne-the-last-medieval-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Laugharne: Coygan and the Deep Past https://qualla.com/laugharne/ Beneath the medieval town runs a much older story. Just southeast of Laugharne, a limestone bluff called Coygan once stood above a coastal plain now drowned by the Bristol Channel. A cave on its face was excavated five times between 1865 and 1965, and what came out kept pushing t...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/laugharne-wp/gchy-laugharne-coygan-and-the-deep-past.mp3 0:06 3 full Laugharne: Castle on the Estuary https://qualla.com/laugharne/ Laugharne Castle rises directly out of the estuary mud, its sandstone walls reflecting in the salt water at high tide. The Normans built the first version - originally called Abercorran Castle - around 1116, when Henry I ordered the land fortified against the returning Welsh heir...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/laugharne-wp/gchy-laugharne-castle-on-the-estuary.mp3 0:06 4 full Laugharne: The Boat House and Brown's Hotel https://qualla.com/laugharne/ Thomas moved into the Boat House in May 1949, with his wife Caitlin and their children, brought there by his friend the novelist Richard Hughes who lived in Castle House. The house clings to a sea wall under the cliff, with herons stalking the mudflats at the bottom of the garden...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/y/laugharne-wp/gchy-laugharne-the-boat-house-and-browns-hotel.mp3 0:06 5 full Laugharne: Cockles, Cocoons and the Tide https://qualla.com/laugharne/ The cockle women of Laugharne and neighbouring Llansaint once harvested 650 tons a year from the estuary beds, working the mud with rakes and donkeys. The Taf and Towy estuaries here have one of the largest tidal ranges in the world, exposing miles of glittering flats at low wate...

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