Qualla: Penrhyndeudraeth https://qualla.com/penrhyndeudraeth 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/j/penrhyndeudraeth-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Penrhyndeudraeth https://qualla.com/penrhyndeudraeth Penrhyndeudraeth: Introduction https://qualla.com/penrhyndeudraeth/ Photo credit SilkTork, CC BY-SA 3.0. The ground that Penrhyndeudraeth stands on was, until the 1840s, a malarial swamp around a huge stagnant pool. The villagers were a handful of cottagers at Upper Penrhyn - they called the place Cefn Coch, the Red Ridge - and they made their meagre living from agriculture, copper, and from the women who gathered cockles in the estuary. Outsiders still call the town Penrhyn Cocos, Cockletown. The proper town came later, deliberate and dry, drained and laid out in broad streets by a Victorian landowner with Italian craftsmen in his head and a town plan in his hand.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/j/penrhyndeudraeth-wp/gcmj-penrhyndeudraeth-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Penrhyndeudraeth: A Town Built on a Bog https://qualla.com/penrhyndeudraeth/ Photo credit Peter Trimming, CC BY-SA 2.0. David Williams of Castell Deudraeth, near Minffordd, drained the swamp in the mid-nineteenth century. He had grown up next door to the planned town of Tremadog, built a generation earlier by William Madocks with the help of Italian masons, and he borrowed the same approach: broad...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/j/penrhyndeudraeth-wp/gcmj-penrhyndeudraeth-a-town-built-on-a-bog.mp3 0:06 2 full Penrhyndeudraeth: One Hundred and Thirty Years of Explosives https://qualla.com/penrhyndeudraeth/ Photo credit Chris McKenna (Thryduulf), CC BY-SA 4.0. The economic engine of Penrhyndeudraeth, for over a century, was a factory that turned cellulose, glycerine and acid into things that explode. The Patent Safety Guncotton Company opened in 1865 on a damp site at the edge of town, chosen because the valley walls would contain any ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/j/penrhyndeudraeth-wp/gcmj-penrhyndeudraeth-one-hundred-and-thirty-years-of-explosives.mp3 0:06 3 full Penrhyndeudraeth: The Philosopher of Plas Penrhyn https://qualla.com/penrhyndeudraeth/ Photo credit John Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1956 the Welsh philosopher Bertrand Russell moved into Plas Penrhyn, a modest house above the village with a view of the Dwyryd estuary and Snowdon beyond it. He was eighty-four and still writing - the Russell-Einstein Manifesto against nuclear weapons had appeared the previou...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/j/penrhyndeudraeth-wp/gcmj-penrhyndeudraeth-the-philosopher-of-plas-penrhyn.mp3 0:06 4 full Penrhyndeudraeth: The Old Languages https://qualla.com/penrhyndeudraeth/ Photo credit John Lucas, CC BY-SA 2.0. Penrhyndeudraeth is the nineteenth most Welsh-speaking community in Wales. According to the 2011 census, 76% of residents aged three and over could speak Welsh; 79% of pupils at the primary school come from Welsh-speaking homes. The language is not an accessory. In June 2011 new ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/m/j/penrhyndeudraeth-wp/gcmj-penrhyndeudraeth-the-old-languages.mp3 0:06 5 full Penrhyndeudraeth: Faeries and Cockles https://qualla.com/penrhyndeudraeth/ Photo credit Peter Trimming, CC BY-SA 2.0. Welsh folklore clings to the hills around Penrhyndeudraeth like sea mist. One legend recounts a servant named Dafydd Fawr escorting his young mistress home one evening. As he walks behind her, a brilliant meteor splits the sky, trailing a ring of fire. Inside the ring he sees a h...

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