Qualla: Malltraeth Marsh https://qualla.com/malltraeth-marsh 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: Malltraeth Marsh https://qualla.com/malltraeth-marsh Malltraeth Marsh: Introduction https://qualla.com/malltraeth-marsh/ The name itself is a confession. Malltraeth - mall traeth - means bad sandy shore. For most of recorded history this corner of southern Anglesey was an estuarine mire, neither land nor sea, drowned by every spring tide and impossible to farm. In 1790 Parliament passed an act to do something about it. In 1824 the Afon Cefni was canalised and the Malltraeth Cob, a mile-long embankment, was thrown across the estuary mouth. Four thousand acres of alluvium emerged behind the wall. Two hundred years later the marsh is officially recognised as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, the bitterns boom from the reedbeds in spring, and a quiet farmhouse on the marsh edge served as the home and studio of one of Britain's most celebrated bird painters.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/malltraeth-marsh-wp/gcky-malltraeth-marsh-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Malltraeth Marsh: The Cob and the Cefni https://qualla.com/malltraeth-marsh/ The 1824 reclamation was a major piece of Georgian civil engineering. The Cob shut out the sea; the canalised Afon Cefni drained the resulting freshwater marsh through a controlled channel down to Malltraeth Sands. About 230 acres in the parish of Llangaffo alone went into privat...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/malltraeth-marsh-wp/gcky-malltraeth-marsh-letting-the-water-return.mp3 0:06 3 full Malltraeth Marsh: The Painter at Shorelands https://qualla.com/malltraeth-marsh/ In 1947 Charles Tunnicliffe moved into a farmhouse called Shorelands on the marsh edge at Malltraeth. Tunnicliffe, born in Lancashire in 1901, had already established himself as Britain's leading wildlife illustrator - his wood engravings illustrated Henry Williamson's Tarka the ...

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