Qualla: Nefyn https://qualla.com/nefyn 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/nefyn-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Nefyn https://qualla.com/nefyn Nefyn: Introduction https://qualla.com/nefyn/ Photo credit DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0. Edward I came to Nefyn in July 1284 with the conquest of Wales finally complete, his armies marching home through the peninsula, his treasurer's books closing on the cost of a war that had killed the last native Prince of Wales. The English king celebrated with a tournament -- one of the first recorded jousts in Britain -- on the open ground above the bay. Foreign knights came, and Welsh ones who had made their peace with the new order, and the town that hosted them was already centuries old. The hillfort of Garn Boduan overlooking Nefyn dates from 300 BC, and the remains of 170 round stone huts and ramparts still cover the 917-foot hill.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/nefyn-wp/gckv-nefyn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Nefyn: Gruffudd's Landing and Gerald's Pillow https://qualla.com/nefyn/ Photo credit Ijanderson977, Public domain. Nefyn first appears in writing in the late eleventh century, when the chroniclers record that the Welsh prince Gruffudd ap Cynan landed here on his return from exile in Ireland to reclaim Gwynedd. Gerald of Wales -- Giraldus Cambrensis, the Norman-Welsh chronicler -- passed throu...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/nefyn-wp/gckv-nefyn-gruffudds-landing-and-geralds-pillow.mp3 0:06 2 full Nefyn: Nefyn Beef https://qualla.com/nefyn/ Photo credit DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0. From at least the eighteenth century, Nefyn lived on herring. The town's coat of arms still bears three of them. The catch was so important to the local economy that herring were called 'Nefyn beef' -- the protein staple of a community whose livestock was scarce and whose harvest...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/nefyn-wp/gckv-nefyn-nefyn-beef.mp3 0:06 3 full Nefyn: The Golf Course on the Cliffs https://qualla.com/nefyn/ Photo credit DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0. Nefyn and District Golf Club was formed in 1907, added a second nine in 1912 and a third nine in 1933, and now offers a front ten followed by a choice of two back eights. The course runs along the narrow Porthdinllaen peninsula, with fairways set high on sea cliffs and the bay gl...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/nefyn-wp/gckv-nefyn-the-golf-course-on-the-cliffs.mp3 0:06 4 full Nefyn: Landslides and Tremors https://qualla.com/nefyn/ Photo credit ClwydianRanger, CC BY-SA 4.0. The coast around Nefyn is alive in ways that occasionally remind the town it sits on rough ground. On 19 July 1984 an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale had its epicentre near Nefyn -- one of the strongest tremors recorded in Britain in recent times, though structural ...

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