Qualla: Llanbedrog https://qualla.com/llanbedrog 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/u/llanbedrog-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Llanbedrog https://qualla.com/llanbedrog Llanbedrog: Introduction https://qualla.com/llanbedrog/ Photo credit William M. Connolley, CC BY 3.0. Lady Elizabeth Love Jones-Parry, widowed in 1856 and finding herself in possession of a substantial dower allowance, decided to spend it on a Gothic Revival house in a south-facing cove on the Llyn Peninsula. She called it Plas Glyn-y-Weddw, the Mansion of the Widow's Glen. Forty years later, in 1896, the property opened its doors as a public art gallery, the oldest in Wales. It is still hanging Welsh painters today.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/llanbedrog-wp/gcku-llanbedrog-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Llanbedrog: Saint Petroc's Village https://qualla.com/llanbedrog/ Photo credit Ijanderson977, Public domain. The name Llanbedrog means the church-enclosure of Petroc, a sixth-century Celtic saint who travelled out of Wales to convert the Cornish and gave his name to villages from Padstow to here. Petroc may be a form of Patrick, though he is a different man entirely from Saint Patrick o...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/llanbedrog-wp/gcku-llanbedrog-saint-petrocs-village.mp3 0:06 2 full Llanbedrog: Granite, Beaches, and a Tramway https://qualla.com/llanbedrog/ Photo credit User:Black Kite, CC BY-SA 3.0. South of the village rises Mynydd Tir-y-Cwmwd, a granite headland whose pink-grey stone was cut commercially through the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. The quarry finally closed in 1949 after almost a century of work, and the headland is now National...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/llanbedrog-wp/gcku-llanbedrog-granite-beaches-and-a-tramway.mp3 0:06 3 full Llanbedrog: Plas Glyn-y-Weddw https://qualla.com/llanbedrog/ Photo credit Public domain. Lady Jones-Parry's house has had a longer afterlife than most dower houses. Originally built in 1856 in a Tudor-Gothic style to designs by the Bangor architect Henry Kennedy, it passed through several hands before Solomon Andrews acquired it as part of his Llanbedrog estate in 18...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/llanbedrog-wp/gcku-llanbedrog-plas-glyn-y-weddw.mp3 0:06 4 full Llanbedrog: A Refuge Above the Cove https://qualla.com/llanbedrog/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Beyond the village, on land that once belonged to the wartime RAF Penrhos bombing station, sits a quieter and more recent history. Since 1949 the former camp has served as a refuge community for Polish exiles, originally for soldiers and their families who could not return home a...

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