Qualla: Poppit Sands https://qualla.com/poppit-sands en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Poppit Sands https://qualla.com/poppit-sands Poppit Sands: Introduction https://qualla.com/poppit-sands/ Walk out across Poppit Sands at low tide, and a quarter-mile from the water's edge you will pass over the foundations of a fish trap built about a thousand years ago. The trap is now entirely submerged, even at low water — a V-shape 280 yards long, with a wall three feet wide, lying under twelve feet of water and covered in algae and worms and sea anemones. When it was built, around the early medieval period, sea levels were lower and the Teifi estuary ran differently. The wall would have showed at low tide as a shallow rock pool, with fish trapped behind it as the tide flowed out. The people who built it are long gone. The trap survives because it is made of rock.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/poppit-sands-wp/gck8-poppit-sands-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Poppit Sands: A Blue Flag Beach https://qualla.com/poppit-sands/ Today Poppit Sands is a wide curving beach of fine sand at the southern side of the Teifi estuary, just inside Pembrokeshire and across the water from Gwbert. The beach has held Blue Flag status — the international standard for clean, safe, well-managed beaches — for most of the ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/poppit-sands-wp/gck8-poppit-sands-a-blue-flag-beach.mp3 0:06 2 full Poppit Sands: The Poppit Interglacial https://qualla.com/poppit-sands/ The rocks at Poppit Sands are mudstone, deposited in deep ocean around 450 million years ago. Because the sediments came down in such deep water, they contain almost no fossils. Beds of harder turbidite sandstone run a metre or two thick through the mudstone. Then, hundreds of mi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/poppit-sands-wp/gck8-poppit-sands-the-poppit-interglacial.mp3 0:06 3 full Poppit Sands: Naming the Sand https://qualla.com/poppit-sands/ The name Poppit looks like a 20th-century beach-friendly invention but is in fact medieval. In a document of 1537, recorded among the property of St Dogmaels Abbey just before the Dissolution, appears: "One close called Potpitt containing 15 acres adjacent to the seashore - 6s.8d...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/poppit-sands-wp/gck8-poppit-sands-naming-the-sand.mp3 0:06 4 full Poppit Sands: Lifeboats and Lifeguards https://qualla.com/poppit-sands/ Poppit is one of the busier rescue beaches in west Wales. The RNLI's Cardigan Lifeboat Station moved to Poppit in 1971, replacing the older 1849 station that had been abandoned in 1932. A boathouse was built for the new C-class lifeboat in 1987, and replaced with a double boathou...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/poppit-sands-wp/gck8-poppit-sands-lifeboats-and-lifeguards.mp3 0:06 5 full Poppit Sands: The Northern End of the Path https://qualla.com/poppit-sands/ Poppit Sands marks the northern terminus of the 186-mile Pembrokeshire Coast Path — one of the great long-distance walks in Britain — and the path itself is now part of the 870-mile Wales Coast Path. Walkers finishing at Poppit have come from Amroth in the south, eight days or so...

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