Qualla: Saundersfoot https://qualla.com/saundersfoot 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/h/w/saundersfoot-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Saundersfoot https://qualla.com/saundersfoot Saundersfoot: Introduction https://qualla.com/saundersfoot/ Photo credit Alistair Hare, CC BY-SA 2.0. Walk west out of Saundersfoot along the beach and the path leads you into a dark, dripping cave cut through solid rock. Then another. Then a third. These three short tunnels are the only tunnels on the entire 870-mile Wales Coast Path, and they were not built for walkers. They were built in 1834 for horse-drawn trams hauling anthracite coal from the mines at Stepaside and Kilgetty down to the new harbour, where the coal was loaded into ships bound for the iron works of Cornwall and the gas works of London. The trams stopped running in 1939. The tunnels remained. Today they carry around half a million walkers a year past the same rock walls the colliery boys watched scroll past for over a century.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/saundersfoot-wp/gchw-saundersfoot-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Saundersfoot: Saint Issel's Village https://qualla.com/saundersfoot/ Photo credit Manfred Heyde, CC BY-SA 3.0. Saundersfoot was known in medieval Wales as Llanussyllt - the church-enclosure of Saint Issel, a Welsh saint of whom little is reliably recorded. After the Norman conquest, the name shifted to St. Issels, and it appears as St. Tissels on a 1578 parish map of Pembrokeshire. Under ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/saundersfoot-wp/gchw-saundersfoot-saint-issels-village.mp3 0:06 2 full Saundersfoot: Coal Port https://qualla.com/saundersfoot/ Photo credit Arthmawr, CC BY-SA 4.0. An Act of Parliament in 1829 gave the Saundersfoot Railway and Harbour Company permission to build a harbour for the export of anthracite coal from the nearby pits. The coal had been dug from the cliffs and shipped from the beach for centuries before that - small-scale work, beac...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/saundersfoot-wp/gchw-saundersfoot-coal-port.mp3 0:06 3 full Saundersfoot: Tunnels on the Wales Coast Path https://qualla.com/saundersfoot/ Photo credit Rob Purvis, CC BY-SA 2.0. The three tunnels are short - none more than a couple of hundred metres - but they are the only ones on the Wales Coast Path's entire 870-mile length. They were excavated for the northern arm of the Saundersfoot Railway, built between 1832 and 1834, which ran along the coast from...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/saundersfoot-wp/gchw-saundersfoot-tunnels-on-the-wales-coast-path.mp3 0:06 4 full Saundersfoot: Frost's Flying Machine https://qualla.com/saundersfoot/ Photo credit Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1894 - nine years before the Wright brothers - a carpenter from Saundersfoot named William Frost patented a flying machine. The Frost Airship Glider was a hybrid: part lighter-than-air balloon, part fixed-wing glider, with cigar-shaped gas envelopes above a long platform with ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/saundersfoot-wp/gchw-saundersfoot-frosts-flying-machine.mp3 0:06 5 full Saundersfoot: Sea, Year, and Now https://qualla.com/saundersfoot/ Photo credit Alistair Hare, CC BY-SA 2.0. Every New Year's Day, Saundersfoot does the same thing: more than a thousand people - over 1,500 in 2016 - dress as Vikings, fairies, superheroes, or simply in their swimsuits, and run into the cold Atlantic. The swim was cancelled in 2021 because of COVID, and came back in 2023 ...

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