Qualla: Llanfaethlu https://qualla.com/llanfaethlu 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/z/llanfaethlu-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Llanfaethlu https://qualla.com/llanfaethlu Llanfaethlu: Introduction https://qualla.com/llanfaethlu/ Photo credit 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the night of 3-4 December 1863 a hurricane struck this stretch of Anglesey coast and wrecked fifteen vessels between Peniel Beach and Clipperau Point. One was the wooden schooner Elizabeth, out of Whitehaven, lost at Porth Penrhyn-mawr. The Holyhead lifeboat launched into the worst of it - taken out by harbour men and pilots after the regular crew had declined to go - and rescued 43 men from three other ships before the night was done. Llanfaethlu village sits inland from this coast: a quiet farming community of around 553 people at the 2011 census, with two prehistoric scheduled monuments, a Georgian country house and a parish church built on the site of an earlier monastery. But the five miles of cliff and beach to the west of the village hold the resting places of at least sixteen named wrecks. Anglesey's coast has always asked a high price of sailing ships, and Llanfaethlu has collected more than its share.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llanfaethlu-wp/gckz-llanfaethlu-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Llanfaethlu: The Standing Stone and the Coins https://qualla.com/llanfaethlu/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Rhion assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Half a mile east of the village, beside the modern A5025 and close to Soar Baptist Chapel, stands the Capel Soar Standing Stone - a tapering slab 3.2 metres high and 1.7 metres wide at the base. It is a scheduled monument. On a headland near the coastal hamlet of Tre-Fadog, overl...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llanfaethlu-wp/gckz-llanfaethlu-the-standing-stone-and-the-coins.mp3 0:06 2 full Llanfaethlu: Carreglwyd and the Telegraph https://qualla.com/llanfaethlu/ Photo credit Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0. Just to the north-west of the village rises Carreglwyd, a Grade II*-listed Georgian house at the heart of a country estate. Its core is seventeenth century; the present elegant Georgian face came in successive remodellings. Its hall, by official assessment, is 'especially fine.' ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llanfaethlu-wp/gckz-llanfaethlu-carreglwyd-and-the-telegraph.mp3 0:06 3 full Llanfaethlu: The Cost of the Coast https://qualla.com/llanfaethlu/ Photo credit Jeremy Bolwell, CC BY-SA 2.0. Anglesey's coast, like much of the Irish Sea, is shallow, ringed with hidden rocks and exposed to gales from almost every quarter. The wrecks along Llanfaethlu's five miles tell a steady story. In February 1898 the 74-foot schooner Grace Phillips, owned by T Morgan & Co of Amlwch...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/z/llanfaethlu-wp/gckz-llanfaethlu-the-cost-of-the-coast.mp3 0:06 4 full Llanfaethlu: Clipperau and the Reedbed https://qualla.com/llanfaethlu/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. At the southern end of the Llanfaethlu coast lies Clipperau Point, Creigiau Cliperau in Welsh, a headland that has caught ships driven south-west by gales for two centuries. The roll call of vessels lost on or near this single rock includes the Maeleta in 1883, the Antelope in 18...

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