Qualla: Llangrannog https://qualla.com/llangrannog 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/b/llangrannog-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Llangrannog https://qualla.com/llangrannog Llangrannog: Introduction https://qualla.com/llangrannog/ Photo credit DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the beach at Llangrannog there is a tall thin stack of rock standing alone in the surf. It is called Carreg Bica, which in old Welsh means the pointed rock. The local legend explains it differently. A giant named Bica once lived in Ceredigion, the story goes, and one day he suffered a toothache so violent that he had to pull the offending tooth from his mouth and spit it out. It landed point-up on the sand and turned to stone. Today the rock is what remains of a much larger Ordovician outcrop that has been weathered into the open sea over millions of years. A piece broke away some decades ago. The geological story and the folk story sit comfortably side by side at Llangrannog. There is room here for both.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/llangrannog-wp/gckb-llangrannog-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Llangrannog: The Valley Squeeze https://qualla.com/llangrannog/ Photo credit William M. Connolley at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Llangrannog is squeezed into the narrow steep-sided valley of the River Hawen, six miles south-west of New Quay on the Ceredigion coast. The village is built along the river, which falls as a small waterfall near the centre of the houses and then crosses the beach to the sea. A s...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/llangrannog-wp/gckb-llangrannog-the-valley-squeeze.mp3 0:06 2 full Llangrannog: Cranogwen https://qualla.com/llangrannog/ Photo credit Hogyn Lleol, CC BY-SA 3.0. Llangrannog was the birthplace of one of the most remarkable Welsh women of the Victorian age: Sarah Jane Rees, known by her bardic name Cranogwen. Born in 1839, the daughter of a sea captain, she learned navigation from her father by the age of fifteen and went on to obtain her ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/llangrannog-wp/gckb-llangrannog-cranogwen.mp3 0:06 3 full Llangrannog: The Urdd Camp https://qualla.com/llangrannog/ Photo credit Stuart Logan, CC BY-SA 2.0. On the cliffs above the village stands one of the most important institutions in modern Welsh-language education: Gwersyll yr Urdd Llangrannog, the Urdd camp. Founded in 1932, the camp is run by Urdd Gobaith Cymru, the Welsh League of Youth, and offers residential courses for chi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/llangrannog-wp/gckb-llangrannog-the-urdd-camp.mp3 0:06 4 full Llangrannog: Visitors and Writers https://qualla.com/llangrannog/ Photo credit Christopher Williams, Public domain. Llangrannog has long attracted artists and writers. Edward Elgar, the English composer, spent a holiday in the village in the early 20th century. The Welsh painter Christopher Williams, RBA, visited and painted here; his picture Holidays - Village Girls at Llangrannog now hangs a...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/llangrannog-wp/gckb-llangrannog-visitors-and-writers.mp3 0:06 5 full Llangrannog: Ynys Lochtyn and the Path North https://qualla.com/llangrannog/ Photo credit Damian.dec at Polish Wikipedia, Public domain. Walk north on the Wales Coast Path from the village and the cliffs climb. After about a mile you reach the headland of Pen y Badell and look down on Ynys Lochtyn, a small green island just offshore that, depending on the tide, can briefly become accessible across a rock causeway....

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/llangrannog-wp/gckb-llangrannog-ynys-lochtyn-and-the-path-north.mp3 0:06 6 full