Qualla: Tŵr Mawr Lighthouse https://qualla.com/twr-mawr-lighthouse 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/y/twr-mawr-lighthouse-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tŵr Mawr Lighthouse https://qualla.com/twr-mawr-lighthouse Tŵr Mawr Lighthouse: Introduction https://qualla.com/twr-mawr-lighthouse/ Photo credit mgphotography.uk, CC BY 2.0. Ynys Llanddwyn is barely an island. At low water it is joined to Newborough Warren by a sand bar; at high water the bar disappears and the small green tongue of land floats free of the Anglesey coast. The Welsh have woven so much story into this place - it is the island of Saint Dwynwen, patron of Welsh lovers, whose ruined 16th-century chapel still stands here - that the lighthouses come almost as an afterthought. But the bigger of them, Twr Mawr - the Great Tower - was a serious piece of mid-19th-century maritime infrastructure. From 1846 until 1975, it marked the western entrance to the Menai Strait for any ship approaching Caernarfon harbour.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/twr-mawr-lighthouse-wp/gcky-t-r-mawr-lighthouse-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tŵr Mawr Lighthouse: Before It Was a Lighthouse https://qualla.com/twr-mawr-lighthouse/ Photo credit User:Noel.morgan2000, Public domain. Two towers stand on Ynys Llanddwyn. Neither appears on Lewis Morris's detailed chart of 1801, but both show up on the Ordnance Survey map of 1818-1823. They were almost certainly built first as 'day marks' - unlit navigational towers that gave fishermen and merchant captains a fi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/twr-mawr-lighthouse-wp/gcky-t-r-mawr-lighthouse-before-it-was-a-lighthouse.mp3 0:06 2 full Tŵr Mawr Lighthouse: 1846: The Light Came On https://qualla.com/twr-mawr-lighthouse/ Photo credit Reading Tom from Reading, UK, CC BY 2.0. The Caernarfon harbour board's lighthouse came into service in 1846. The lantern and its fittings cost 250 pounds 7 shillings and 6 pence, including the adaptation of the existing day-mark tower. The light was made by De Ville and Co of London - James De Ville's optical workshop,...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/twr-mawr-lighthouse-wp/gcky-t-r-mawr-lighthouse-1846-the-light-came-on.mp3 0:06 3 full Tŵr Mawr Lighthouse: The Smaller Tower https://qualla.com/twr-mawr-lighthouse/ Photo credit Mark Warren 1973, CC BY-SA 4.0. The second, smaller tower on the island - Twr Bach, 'the Little Tower' - sits to the southeast. It is conical, with a domed top, the walls six feet in radius and three feet thick, with a door to the northwest. The west wall shows signs of cracking through its rubble-filled core. ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/twr-mawr-lighthouse-wp/gcky-t-r-mawr-lighthouse-the-smaller-tower.mp3 0:06 4 full Tŵr Mawr Lighthouse: The Saint's Island https://qualla.com/twr-mawr-lighthouse/ Photo credit Arthur C Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0. Whatever you think you came to see at Twr Mawr, the rest of Ynys Llanddwyn keeps interrupting. The ruins of the 16th-century church of Saint Dwynwen lie on the island - she is the patron saint of Welsh lovers, the figure invoked on 25 January, Wales's version of Valentine's Day. ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/twr-mawr-lighthouse-wp/gcky-t-r-mawr-lighthouse-the-saints-island.mp3 0:06 5 full