Qualla: Llanllyfni https://qualla.com/llanllyfni 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/v/llanllyfni-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Llanllyfni https://qualla.com/llanllyfni Llanllyfni: Introduction https://qualla.com/llanllyfni/ Photo credit Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the morning of 6 July each year, the village of Llanllyfni holds a fair. It has held the same fair on the same day for at least two hundred years -- St Rhedyw's Day, named for the fourth-century saint to whom the parish church is dedicated. The village sits in the floor of the Nantlle Valley, four miles inland from Caernarfon, surrounded by mountains that were quarried for slate from the late eighteenth century until the late twentieth. Eighty-five percent of its residents speak Welsh as their first language. Among them, when he was a small boy, was the man whose voice would one day fill opera houses from La Scala to the Met.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/llanllyfni-wp/gckv-llanllyfni-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Llanllyfni: St Rhedyw and the Christmas Service https://qualla.com/llanllyfni/ Photo credit Ijanderson977, Public domain. Eglwys Sant Rhedyw, the parish church, has stood on this site since at least the fourth century, though the present building dates from much later. Rhedyw is one of the obscure early Welsh saints whose feast day survives in the local calendar despite his vita being almost entirel...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/llanllyfni-wp/gckv-llanllyfni-st-rhedyw-and-the-christmas-service.mp3 0:06 2 full Llanllyfni: Bryn Terfel's Primary School https://qualla.com/llanllyfni/ Photo credit Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0. Bryn Terfel grew up at Pant Glas on the edge of the Nantlle Valley, attended Ysgol Gynradd Llanllyfni, the village primary school, and then Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle, the secondary school a mile down the road in Penygroes. He went on from there to the Guildhall School of Music in Lon...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/llanllyfni-wp/gckv-llanllyfni-bryn-terfels-primary-school.mp3 0:06 3 full Llanllyfni: The Quarryman's Arms and Bryn Fôn https://qualla.com/llanllyfni/ Photo credit James@hopgrove at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Llanllyfni once had at least five pubs. Two of them survive as private houses, including the King's Head; the rest are gone. The last to close was the Quarryman's Arms, which burned down and was demolished. The singer and actor Bryn Fôn -- a different Bryn, another product of Lla...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/llanllyfni-wp/gckv-llanllyfni-the-quarrymans-arms-and-bryn-f-n.mp3 0:06 4 full Llanllyfni: Quarries, Football and the Welsh Tongue https://qualla.com/llanllyfni/ Photo credit Jaggery, CC BY-SA 2.0. Llanllyfni existed before the slate quarries opened, but it grew as they grew. The village stretches along the floor of the Nantlle Valley, almost conjoined with Penygroes to the north and Talysarn to the south-east. The Nantlle Ridge rises to the south, with Craig Cwm Silyn at 2...

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