Qualla: Llangefni https://qualla.com/llangefni 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: Llangefni https://qualla.com/llangefni Llangefni: Introduction https://qualla.com/llangefni/ Eighty-point-seven percent of Llangefni speaks Welsh. That figure makes this small county town - tucked beside the River Cefni near the centre of Anglesey - the most strongly Welsh-speaking community on the entire Isle of Anglesey and the sixth strongest in all of Wales. Of residents born in Wales, the rate climbs to 91.6 percent. In a country where the language has been embattled since the Acts of Union of 1535, where it was beaten out of children in Victorian schoolrooms with the infamous Welsh Not, that statistic is not background colour. It is the headline.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/llangefni-wp/gcky-llangefni-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Llangefni: Saint Cyngar's Town https://qualla.com/llangefni/ The town was originally Llangyngar - the church of St Cyngar - and it still has a Victorian parish church to that saint set on a wooded riverside spot the locals call the Dingle. The River Cefni gave the town its modern name, and it gave the town its border, and it gave the town ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/llangefni-wp/gcky-llangefni-saint-cyngars-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Llangefni: Two Painters, One Gallery https://qualla.com/llangefni/ Oriel Môn, the museum and gallery on the edge of town, holds the largest public collections of two of Wales's most beloved 20th-century artists. Sir Kyffin Williams - born in 1918, raised on Anglesey, dead in 2006 - painted the Welsh landscape with a palette knife the way other a...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/llangefni-wp/gcky-llangefni-two-painters-one-gallery.mp3 0:06 3 full Llangefni: The Railway That Won't Quite Die https://qualla.com/llangefni/ Llangefni had a station on the Anglesey Central Railway from 1864 until 1964. Passenger services ended that year, but freight kept rattling through until 1993. Then the tracks went quiet. The rails are still there. Network Rail still owns the route. A company called Anglesey Cent...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/llangefni-wp/gcky-llangefni-the-railway-that-wont-quite-die.mp3 0:06 4 full Llangefni: An Unlikely Roster https://qualla.com/llangefni/ The town has produced a notable list of people for its size. The preacher John Elias lived here from 1830 until his death in 1841; Christmas Evans, a contemporary preacher and chapel builder, had lived here from 1791 to 1826. Hugh Griffith, the Oscar-winning Welsh actor who playe...

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