Qualla: Llanystumdwy https://qualla.com/llanystumdwy 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: Llanystumdwy https://qualla.com/llanystumdwy Llanystumdwy: Introduction https://qualla.com/llanystumdwy/ A barefoot boy used to walk the lanes here on his way to chapel, his shoes tucked under his arm so they wouldn't wear out before he reached the door. He grew up to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, to push through the People's Budget and the old-age pension, to sit at Versailles redrawing the map of Europe after the First World War. But David Lloyd George was raised in Llanystumdwy, a stone village on the Afon Dwyfor where the A497 dips toward Cardigan Bay, and when he died in 1945 he asked to be buried beside the river he had played in as a child.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/llanystumdwy-wp/gckv-llanystumdwy-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Llanystumdwy: Highgate and the Cobbler Uncle https://qualla.com/llanystumdwy/ Lloyd George's father, a schoolmaster, died of pneumonia when David was barely a year old. His widowed mother Elizabeth brought the children home to her brother Richard Lloyd in Llanystumdwy. Richard was a shoemaker and a Disciples of Christ minister, and Highgate Cottage on the ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/llanystumdwy-wp/gckv-llanystumdwy-the-initials-on-the-bridge.mp3 0:06 3 full Llanystumdwy: Williams-Ellis and the Stone in the River https://qualla.com/llanystumdwy/ Lloyd George chose his burial place himself, on a wooded bend of the Dwyfor a short walk from Highgate. After his death in 1945 the memorial was designed by Clough Williams-Ellis, the architect best known for the Italianate fantasy of Portmeirion across Cardigan Bay. Williams-Ell...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/llanystumdwy-wp/gckv-llanystumdwy-jan-morris-on-the-hill.mp3 0:06 5 full Llanystumdwy: Where the Dwyfor Meets the Bay https://qualla.com/llanystumdwy/ The Dwyfor reaches Cardigan Bay just south of the village, near a beach where the Wales Coastal Path passes. A circular footpath leads past Lloyd George's grave through the Coed Trefan deciduous woodland and back along the riverbank. The community of Llanystumdwy stretches inland...

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