Qualla: Porthdinllaen https://qualla.com/porthdinllaen 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/porthdinllaen-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Porthdinllaen https://qualla.com/porthdinllaen Porthdinllaen: Introduction https://qualla.com/porthdinllaen/ Photo credit Cls14, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1806 Parliament passed an act to build new harbour works at a small Welsh fishing village on the Llyn Peninsula. The plan was to make Porthdinllaen, not Holyhead, the principal port for the route from London to Dublin. The two harbours were almost equally far west, and Porthdinllaen was sheltered by a north-jutting headland that made it one of the safest anchorages on the entire Welsh coast -- a hundred acres of good holding ground in all but a north-easterly gale. The Porthdinllaen Harbour Company was formed in 1808 by the Jones Parry family of nearby Madryn estate. Then, in 1810, the parliamentary bill failed. Thomas Telford had been building roads to Holyhead, and Holyhead won. Porthdinllaen stayed a fishing village. Two centuries later, the loss looks remarkably like a win.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/porthdinllaen-wp/gckv-porthdinllaen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Porthdinllaen: Two Dozen Cottages and a Pub https://qualla.com/porthdinllaen/ Photo credit Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0. There are about two dozen buildings at Porthdinllaen and one of them, the Ty Coch Inn, is the village. The pub sits directly on the beach, painted red, looking out at boats moored in the bay. The Ty Coch has been repeatedly named one of the best beach bars in Britain and the worl...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/porthdinllaen-wp/gckv-porthdinllaen-two-dozen-cottages-and-a-pub.mp3 0:06 2 full Porthdinllaen: Pigs to Liverpool, Salt for Herring https://qualla.com/porthdinllaen/ Photo credit Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0. Before the National Trust, before the tourism, Porthdinllaen worked for its living. Pig farming was a mainstay of the Llyn economy, and Porthdinllaen was where the pigs left -- shipped to Liverpool from the small pier. In 1830 the local farmers and merchants asked the Madryn esta...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/porthdinllaen-wp/gckv-porthdinllaen-pigs-to-liverpool-salt-for-herring.mp3 0:06 3 full Porthdinllaen: The Lifeboat That Speaks Welsh https://qualla.com/porthdinllaen/ Photo credit Jeff Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1864 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution established a station at Porthdinllaen, and it has been crewed continuously ever since. It is the only RNLI station in Britain where Welsh is the normal working language of the crew. The current boat, the all-weather Tamar-class Joh...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/v/porthdinllaen-wp/gckv-porthdinllaen-the-lifeboat-that-speaks-welsh.mp3 0:06 4 full Porthdinllaen: Half Light and the Cinematic Bay https://qualla.com/porthdinllaen/ Photo credit Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0. Because Porthdinllaen looks almost exactly the way a Welsh fishing village would have looked in 1850, it gets used for filming. In September 2004 it stood in as a Scottish fishing village for the Demi Moore romantic thriller Half Light. The bay's preservation is not accidental: N...

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