Qualla: Llanidan https://qualla.com/llanidan 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: Llanidan https://qualla.com/llanidan Llanidan: Introduction https://qualla.com/llanidan/ Two field names in the parish of Llanidan have unsettled antiquarians since at least 1867. Maes Hir Gad - the field of the long battle. Cae Oer Waedd - the field of cold or bitter lamentation. Roman historians described Suetonius Paulinus crossing the Menai Strait in 60 CE to attack the Druid groves of Anglesey, his soldiers urged on by their general not to quail before "a troop of frenzied women." Eighteen years later Agricola came again. Somewhere on this stretch of south Anglesey coast, the legions slaughtered the priests and burned the sacred groves. The field names may be folk memory of where it happened. Or they may not. Two thousand years is a long time to keep score.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/llanidan-wp/gcky-llanidan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Llanidan: A Roman Town That Shouldn't Be Here https://qualla.com/llanidan/ What we know for certain is that, much later, a Roman settlement grew at Tai Cochion - a substantial trading town on the Anglesey shore directly opposite the Roman fort at Segontium on the mainland. Geophysical survey revealed something extraordinary: a planned street layout, 600...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/llanidan-wp/gcky-llanidan-a-roman-town-that-shouldnt-be-here.mp3 0:06 2 full Llanidan: Where the Strait Was Crossed https://qualla.com/llanidan/ The settlement makes sense if you read the geography honestly. Tai Cochion sits at what may have been the main crossing point of the Menai Strait - the place where men and cargo moved between the mainland fort and the conquered island. A trading town would naturally grow at such ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/llanidan-wp/gcky-llanidan-where-the-strait-was-crossed.mp3 0:06 3 full Llanidan: The Industrialist's Hall https://qualla.com/llanidan/ By the Middle Ages, the parish was part of the commote of Menai, in the cantref of Rhosyr - the same administrative division that included nearby Llys Rhosyr, the royal court of the Welsh princes. Centuries later, in the 18th century, a local man would change Anglesey again. Thom...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/llanidan-wp/gcky-llanidan-the-industrialists-hall.mp3 0:06 4 full Llanidan: What the Village Holds Now https://qualla.com/llanidan/ Brynsiencyn, the small village at the parish's heart, has a post office, a shop, a kebab house, a pub, a primary school, a church, and a large chapel - the standard provisioning kit of a Welsh village that still works. Llanidan Stud breeds Welsh ponies of cob type, the section-C ...

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