Qualla: Rhosygilwen https://qualla.com/rhosygilwen 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: Rhosygilwen https://qualla.com/rhosygilwen Rhosygilwen: Introduction https://qualla.com/rhosygilwen/ In 1994 the country house at Rhosygilwen, near the village of Rhoshill in Pembrokeshire, was a ruin scheduled for demolition. A fire in 1985 had gutted the upper floors. The roof was failing. The local council was running out of patience. A businessman named Glen Peters bought the wreck instead of letting it fall, and over the next thirty years did something unusual with it: he turned a Georgian-era Welsh mansion into a working centre for renewable energy, eco-housing, the arts, and the kind of cultural events that small Welsh villages do not usually host. By 2025 he had been appointed MBE in the King's Birthday Honours.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/rhosygilwen-wp/gck8-rhosygilwen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Rhosygilwen: The Colby Years https://qualla.com/rhosygilwen/ Rhosygilwen had belonged to the Jones family until 1697, when it passed to the Colby family — the same family that produced Thomas Frederick Colby, the geographer raised here, whose father Thomas Colby was High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1771. The house was rebuilt in the 1830s ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/rhosygilwen-wp/gck8-rhosygilwen-the-colby-years.mp3 0:06 2 full Rhosygilwen: Saving the Building https://qualla.com/rhosygilwen/ The Peters acquisition in 1994 began with the obvious: the roof, the walls, the structural work that any conservation project starts with. But the family's ambitions for the place went further. They aimed to use the house not as a private museum or even a country hotel, but as a ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/rhosygilwen-wp/gck8-rhosygilwen-saving-the-building.mp3 0:06 3 full Rhosygilwen: Wales' First Solar Farm https://qualla.com/rhosygilwen/ In 2011, Western Solar — a company with its headquarters at Rhosygilwen — installed Wales' first utility-scale solar farm in a six-acre field on the estate. Ten thousand solar panels went up. The BBC reported it as Wales' first solar park; it generated enough electricity to power...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/rhosygilwen-wp/gck8-rhosygilwen-wales-first-solar-farm.mp3 0:06 4 full Rhosygilwen: Neuadd y Dderwen https://qualla.com/rhosygilwen/ The 250-seat performance hall at Rhosygilwen is called Neuadd y Dderwen — The Oak Hall — and is built to carbon-neutral specifications, an unusual commitment for a rural concert venue. Performers who have played there include Catrin Finch, one of the great harpists of her generat...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/8/rhosygilwen-wp/gck8-rhosygilwen-neuadd-y-dderwen.mp3 0:06 5 full Rhosygilwen: Eco-Hamlets https://qualla.com/rhosygilwen/ The Rhosygilwen model extends beyond the estate itself. In June 2014, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park approved a Western Solar plan for six sustainable homes at Glanrhyd, with conditions that the buildings be manufactured locally and that residents receive free solar-powered el...

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