Qualla: Penmynydd https://qualla.com/penmynydd 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/y/penmynydd-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Penmynydd https://qualla.com/penmynydd Penmynydd: Introduction https://qualla.com/penmynydd/ Photo credit Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before there was a House of Tudor, before Bosworth Field and the red dragon of Cadwaladr was raised over Henry VII's army, there was this small village on a low Anglesey hill. The name is a quiet boast in Welsh - Penmynydd, 'top of the mountain' - though the rise is more modest than the word suggests. From the slope above the B5420, the land falls away to the Menai Strait and rises again into the mountains of Snowdonia. It was here, in the late medieval Welsh-speaking world of Ynys Môn, that a family rose from gentry to royalty by a route no one could have predicted.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/penmynydd-wp/gcky-penmynydd-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Penmynydd: The Cradle of a Dynasty https://qualla.com/penmynydd/ Photo credit Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Tudors of Penmynydd were Welsh nobility long before they were English kings. They served the princes of Gwynedd, held lands across Anglesey, and married into the island's other great families. Then came 1412, when Rhys ap Tudur was executed for his part in the Owain Glyndwr r...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/penmynydd-wp/gcky-penmynydd-the-cradle-of-a-dynasty.mp3 0:06 2 full Penmynydd: The House on the Hill https://qualla.com/penmynydd/ Photo credit Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0. Plas Penmynydd still stands, a Grade II*-listed building tucked into the slope above the village. The current structure is the 1576 rebuild, not the medieval hall the Tudors first occupied, but the site is unbroken. The senior line ended with another Richard Owen Tudor, Sheriff o...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/penmynydd-wp/gcky-penmynydd-the-house-on-the-hill.mp3 0:06 3 full Penmynydd: Older Than the Tudors https://qualla.com/penmynydd/ Photo credit Talsarnau Times, CC BY-SA 3.0. The geology beneath Penmynydd is older by an almost incomprehensible margin. Edward Greenly, the Edwardian geologist who mapped Anglesey in extraordinary detail, gave the village's name to the Penmynydd Zone of Metamorphism - a Precambrian blueschist terrane that stretches the le...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/penmynydd-wp/gcky-penmynydd-older-than-the-tudors.mp3 0:06 4 full Penmynydd: Quiet Faith, Quiet Village https://qualla.com/penmynydd/ Photo credit Nigel Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0. Penmynydd has another quiet first to its name. The bwthyn - the small cottage - at Minffordd was the first place on Anglesey used for Nonconformist worship, in the early 18th century. Before chapel architecture became one of the defining marks of Welsh village life, Methodists an...

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