Qualla: Slebech https://qualla.com/slebech 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: Slebech https://qualla.com/slebech Slebech: Introduction https://qualla.com/slebech/ Eight centuries ago, white-mantled knights of the Order of St John established their West Wales headquarters on a quiet bend of the Eastern Cleddau river. The commandery they built at Slebech in 1161 became the oldest of its kind in Wales, a place where warrior-monks coordinated their charitable hospitals and military commitments to the Holy Land from a riverside chapel barely visible today through the trees. The order is long gone. The church is a ruin. But Slebech itself, now folded into the larger community of Uzmaston and Boulston and Slebech, still carries the weight of everything that has passed through it - and the list is remarkable.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/slebech-wp/gchw-slebech-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Slebech: The Knights at the River https://qualla.com/slebech/ Slebech sits within the Barony of Daugleddau, that wedge of Pembrokeshire defined by the twin Cleddau rivers that eventually join to form Milford Haven. The Knights Hospitallers chose it for a reason: navigable water, defensible ground, and a position that let them control the up...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/slebech-wp/gchw-slebech-the-knights-at-the-river.mp3 0:06 2 full Slebech: A Bristol Merchant's New World https://qualla.com/slebech/ The Barlow brothers who inherited the dissolved commandery were not minor figures. Roger Barlow, born around 1483 in Essex, had made a fortune as a merchant in Seville before signing on with Sebastian Cabot's 1526 voyage to South America. He sailed up the Rio de la Plata - the Ri...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/slebech-wp/gchw-slebech-a-bristol-merchants-new-world.mp3 0:06 3 full Slebech: The Jamaica Fortune https://qualla.com/slebech/ In 1793 the estate passed to Nathaniel Phillips, and with him came a darker thread. Phillips was born in 1733, the illegitimate son of a Jamaica-trading merchant. He sailed to Kingston in 1759 and built a partnership with the planters who supplied the sugar trade. Over twenty-fiv...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/slebech-wp/gchw-slebech-the-jamaica-fortune.mp3 0:06 4 full Slebech: Polish Barons, German Counts https://qualla.com/slebech/ The story keeps turning. Phillips's daughter Mary Dorothea met Charles Frederick Baron de Rutzen in Rome in 1821 - a Polish-German nobleman descended from Field Marshal Potemkin of Russian history - and married him a year later. Their descendants ruled the manor for generations. ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/w/slebech-wp/gchw-slebech-polish-barons-german-counts.mp3 0:06 5 full Slebech: What Lives Here Now https://qualla.com/slebech/ Today the formal life of Slebech is largely silent. Slebech Park is Grade II listed, one of twenty-five listed buildings in the community, and the park is designated Grade II* on the Cadw register of historic parks and gardens. The land between the hall and the river holds the ru...

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