Qualla: Manordeifi https://qualla.com/manordeifi 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/8/manordeifi-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Manordeifi https://qualla.com/manordeifi Manordeifi: Introduction https://qualla.com/manordeifi/ Photo credit Dylan Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0. On the floor of the porch of an old church in Pembrokeshire hangs a coracle. It is not decorative. The 13th- and 14th-century church of Manordeifi sits on the edge of the River Teifi's floodplain, and when the water rose — as it has done for as long as anyone has lived here — the small leather-and-wicker boat was the parishioners' escape route. By the 19th century the floods had won. A new church was built up on the hill, and the old church on the riverbank was abandoned. The coracle is still in the porch.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/manordeifi-wp/gck8-manordeifi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Manordeifi: Manerdve, 1578 https://qualla.com/manordeifi/ Photo credit Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0. Manordeifi is recorded as Manerdve on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire — one of those names that has been worn into its modern shape by four hundred and fifty years of Welsh and English mouths. The parish lies in the hundred of Cilgerran, in the north-east corner of Pembrokeshi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/manordeifi-wp/gck8-manordeifi-manerdve-1578.mp3 0:06 2 full Manordeifi: The Old Church https://qualla.com/manordeifi/ Photo credit ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Manordeifi's old parish church, abandoned for active worship in the 19th century, sits in a quiet meadow beside the river. The Friends of Friendless Churches now care for it. Inside is a chamber little altered since the medieval period, with box pews, a wooden gallery, a font tha...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/manordeifi-wp/gck8-manordeifi-the-old-church.mp3 0:06 3 full Manordeifi: Ffynone https://qualla.com/manordeifi/ Photo credit Nigel Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0. Of the mansions in the parish, the most architecturally important is Ffynone, near Boncath. The estate had belonged to the Morgan family until Captain Stephen Colby bought it in 1752, and the country house at its centre was designed by John Nash — the same Nash who would later re...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/manordeifi-wp/gck8-manordeifi-ffynone.mp3 0:06 4 full Manordeifi: The Lloyd Georges https://qualla.com/manordeifi/ Photo credit John Firth, CC BY-SA 2.0. Ffynone changed hands several times across the twentieth century and was bought, restored, and lived in from 1987 onwards by Owen Lloyd George, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor — the grandson of David Lloyd George, the Welsh prime minister who led Britain out of the First World Wa...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/manordeifi-wp/gck8-manordeifi-the-lloyd-georges.mp3 0:06 5 full Manordeifi: Old and New https://qualla.com/manordeifi/ Photo credit ceridwen, CC BY-SA 2.0. Today Manordeifi is part of the Cilgerran electoral ward for the purposes of Pembrokeshire County Council elections, and has its own community council. The population is small. The old church beside the river is opened by volunteers and visited mostly by people who go out of thei...

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