Qualla: Moel Famau https://qualla.com/moel-famau en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/w/moel-famau-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Moel Famau https://qualla.com/moel-famau Moel Famau: Introduction https://qualla.com/moel-famau/ Photo credit Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0. George Kenyon, the 2nd Baron Kenyon, laid the foundation stone in October 1810 for what was meant to become a soaring three-tier Egyptian obelisk on top of the highest hill in north-east Wales. The tower would celebrate the fiftieth year of George III's reign - a Welsh contribution to the king's golden jubilee. The inscription, drafted in Latin, called him Pio Justo Patri Patrio: pious, just, father of his country. The architect was Thomas Harrison of Chester. Funds ran out. The tower was never completed. In 1862, a major storm brought down the unfinished structure, the upper part was demolished for safety, and what stands today on Moel Famau - the Mothers' Bare Hill - is the squat, square base of an ambitious building Britain never quite managed to finish.

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/w/moel-famau-wp/gcmw-moel-famau-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Moel Famau: What the Name Actually Means https://qualla.com/moel-famau/ Photo credit Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0. Moel is straightforward Welsh: it means bare, used in place-names across Wales to describe a hilltop without trees. The second word is more complicated. Historical spellings vary - Moel Famma, Moel Vamma, Moel Fammau, Moel Famau, Moel Fama. The forms attested from the 14th centur...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/w/moel-famau-wp/gcmw-moel-famau-what-the-name-actually-means.mp3 0:06 2 full Moel Famau: An Egyptian Tower in the Clwydians https://qualla.com/moel-famau/ Photo credit Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0. Thomas Harrison, the architect, was the celebrated Chester-based designer of the Chester Castle Grosvenor Building, the Lyceum in Liverpool, and the Anglesey Column. The Jubilee Tower he designed for Moel Famau was an Egyptian obelisk in three tiers, faces sloping inward and upwa...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/w/moel-famau-wp/gcmw-moel-famau-an-egyptian-tower-in-the-clwydians.mp3 0:06 3 full Moel Famau: 1862 and the Walls Built from the Rubble https://qualla.com/moel-famau/ Photo credit Nilfanion, created using Ordnance Survey data, CC BY-SA 3.0. The storm did serious damage. The upper part of the structure was so unstable afterward that it had to be demolished for public safety, leaving only the lower square base. Most of the dressed stone rubble was removed from the summit and carted down the hill, where local farmers r...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/w/moel-famau-wp/gcmw-moel-famau-1862-and-the-walls-built-from-the-rubble.mp3 0:06 4 full Moel Famau: Iron Age Forts and Offa's Dyke https://qualla.com/moel-famau/ Photo credit David Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0. Moel Famau is 1,818 feet (554 m) high, the highest point in the Clwydian Range and the county top of Flintshire. It sits on the boundary between Denbighshire and Flintshire. Despite local pride, it is not actually the highest point in north-east Wales - that honour goes to Cadair...

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]]> Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/w/moel-famau-wp/gcmw-moel-famau-iron-age-forts-and-offas-dyke.mp3 0:06 5 full