Qualla: Madryn Castle https://qualla.com/madryn-castle 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/u/madryn-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Madryn Castle https://qualla.com/madryn-castle Madryn Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/madryn-castle/ Photo credit Alan Fryer, CC BY-SA 2.0. There is no castle here now. What stands at the foot of Carn Fadryn is a Tudor gatehouse, a holiday park, and a working farm called Madryn Castle Farm. The Gothic Revival pile that gave the place its name was demolished in 1968 after a fire, and the contents (paintings by van Dyck, Holbein, Hoppner, and Gainsborough among them) had already been auctioned off in 1910 to settle the affairs of the last male owner, William Corbet Yale. What remains is the story.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/madryn-castle-wp/gcku-madryn-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Madryn Castle: Two Hundred Years, Twice https://qualla.com/madryn-castle/ Photo credit Traveler100, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Madryn family held this estate for about two hundred years, on the south flank of the Llyn Peninsula between Pwllheli and the bulk of Carn Fadryn. Their slow decline began in the late sixteenth century with the schemes of Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester and Elizabeth I's...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/madryn-castle-wp/gcku-madryn-castle-two-hundred-years-twice.mp3 0:06 2 full Madryn Castle: From Hughes to Jones-Parry https://qualla.com/madryn-castle/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Hughes had no direct male heir either. The estate passed by marriage to the Parry family, who hyphenated themselves to Jones-Parry and held Madryn for another two centuries. The most colourful of them was Sir Love Jones-Parry, 1st Baronet (1832-1891), son of Lieutenant-General Si...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/madryn-castle-wp/gcku-madryn-castle-from-hughes-to-jones-parry.mp3 0:06 3 full Madryn Castle: An Eisteddfod in the Park https://qualla.com/madryn-castle/ Photo credit Owen Morgan Edwards, Public domain. Madryn's grounds hosted the Eisteddfod of 1875, an event that drew thousands of visitors from across Wales to the lawns and gardens around the castle. Photographs from the occasion show the white marquees, the procession, the orderly crowds in their summer best. The estate descen...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/u/madryn-castle-wp/gcku-madryn-castle-an-eisteddfod-in-the-park.mp3 0:06 4 full Madryn Castle: Fire and Afterward https://qualla.com/madryn-castle/ Photo credit David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0. Through the twentieth century the building drifted through various uses, partly residential, partly institutional, never quite finding a steady purpose. A fire in the 1960s gutted the main block. In 1968 what was left was pulled down, and a caravan and holiday park was built with...

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