Qualla: Lon Goed https://qualla.com/lon-goed 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/lon-goed-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lon Goed https://qualla.com/lon-goed Lon Goed: Introduction https://qualla.com/lon-goed/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. Stand at Afon Wen on the A497 between Criccieth and Pwllheli, look inland, and you will see what looks like a green tunnel running north into the foothills of Eifionydd. Five miles of straight track, lined on both sides with oak and beech planted two hundred years ago, climbing gently toward the slopes of Mynydd Cennin. This is Lon Goed -- the wooded lane -- and it is the most famous walking track on the Llyn Peninsula not because of any battle, ruined castle or saint's well, but because of one Welsh poem.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/lon-goed-wp/gckv-lon-goed-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lon Goed: John Maughan's Drainage Project https://qualla.com/lon-goed/ Photo credit Alan Fryer, CC BY-SA 2.0. Lon Goed is not a natural feature. It was deliberately planted between 1819 and 1828 by John Maughan, the steward of Plas Hen -- the estate now called Talhenbont -- near Llanystumdwy. The original purpose was prosaic. A track ran from the coastal hamlet of Afon Wen up to Hendre C...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/lon-goed-wp/gckv-lon-goed-john-maughans-drainage-project.mp3 0:06 2 full Lon Goed: Williams Parry and the Poem https://qualla.com/lon-goed/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. In the early twentieth century, the poet R. Williams Parry walked Lon Goed in the autumn and wrote a Welsh-language poem called simply Eifionydd. The literary editor Meic Stephens called it one of the most famous poems in the Welsh language. Williams Parry, who lived from 1884 to...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/lon-goed-wp/gckv-lon-goed-williams-parry-and-the-poem.mp3 0:06 3 full Lon Goed: Storm Darwin and the Bardic Chair https://qualla.com/lon-goed/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. In February 2014 Storm Darwin -- which had caused the worst storm damage in Ireland on record -- crossed the Irish Sea and made landfall in Gwynedd. The wind felled an oak on Lon Goed that had been planted around 1820 in John Maughan's original scheme. The tree was almost two hun...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/lon-goed-wp/gckv-lon-goed-storm-darwin-and-the-bardic-chair.mp3 0:06 4 full Lon Goed: Walking It Now https://qualla.com/lon-goed/ Photo credit Alan Fryer, CC BY-SA 2.0. Lon Goed runs five miles from Afon Wen north-east and then north to Hendre Cennin. It is still unpaved, still wooded, still lined with the trees Maughan planted. The Welsh Arts Council managed the trees through a government employment scheme in 1977-78, and various local conserva...

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