Qualla: Tudweiliog https://qualla.com/tudweiliog 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: Tudweiliog https://qualla.com/tudweiliog Tudweiliog: Introduction https://qualla.com/tudweiliog/ Three theories compete for the origin of the name Tudweiliog, and none of them is true. One tells of a lazy man called Wil. Another involves a priest's horse galloping across the Irish Sea from Ireland and leaving a hoofprint stamped into the rock at Porth Towyn beach. A third, more sober, tries to derive it from a saint's Latin priory. The actual answer, dull but correct, is the territorial suffix -iog tacked onto the personal name Tudwal. The village got to keep the colourful stories anyway.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/s/tudweiliog-wp/gcks-tudweiliog-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tudweiliog: A Village That Stayed Welsh https://qualla.com/tudweiliog/ Tudweiliog sits on the northern coast of the Llyn Peninsula, about ten miles from Pwllheli down a road that narrows as it leaves the market towns behind. The community covers a little over thirty-five square kilometres and counted 970 souls at the 2011 census, up from 801 a decad...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/s/tudweiliog-wp/gcks-tudweiliog-a-village-that-stayed-welsh.mp3 0:06 2 full Tudweiliog: Older Stones Than the Village https://qualla.com/tudweiliog/ The land around Tudweiliog has been inhabited for a great deal longer than the village. On nearby Mynydd Cefnamwlch stands Coetan Arthur, a Neolithic burial chamber whose capstone has held its place for some five thousand years. To the south rises Carn Fadryn, crowned with Bronze...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/s/tudweiliog-wp/gcks-tudweiliog-the-sea-facing-edge.mp3 0:06 4 full Tudweiliog: The Quiet North Coast https://qualla.com/tudweiliog/ Tudweiliog has the rhythm of places that were never fashionable enough to be ruined. The Nefyn Coaches bus runs every hour or two between here and Pwllheli, stopping at chapels and crossroads. A smithy still operates. A nonconformist chapel and a parish church each get their cong...

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