Qualla: Wolf's Castle https://qualla.com/wolf-s-castle 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: Wolf's Castle https://qualla.com/wolf-s-castle Wolf's Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/wolf-s-castle/ Captain William Davies Evans, a Welsh sea captain born near here in 1790, was on a Royal Mail packet ship between Milford Haven and Waterford when he worked out a chess opening that bore his name forever. The Evans Gambit, first played in 1827, gives up a pawn on the fourth move to seize the centre and develop the bishops with speed. Garry Kasparov was still using it competitively a hundred and seventy years later. Evans's family farm was Musland, just outside the small Pembrokeshire village called Wolf's Castle, which sits on a hill where Norman invaders once watched the Landsker Line. Today the village has a pub, a country hotel, a Romano-British villa under one of its fields, and a habit of producing things bigger than itself.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/wolf-s-castle-wp/gchr-wolfs-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Wolf's Castle: Two Villages, One Hill https://qualla.com/wolf-s-castle/ Wolf's Castle is really two settlements stacked on the same hillside. The upper village, Wolfscastle proper, sits at the top of a steep slope. The lower village, called Ford, lies down in the river valley where the Western Cleddau and the Anghof meet. The A40 trunk road from Lond...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/wolf-s-castle-wp/gchr-wolfs-castle-the-norman-watch-post.mp3 0:06 3 full Wolf's Castle: The Roman Surprise https://qualla.com/wolf-s-castle/ In the early 1800s, a Welsh antiquarian called Richard Fenton, born and raised in nearby St Davids, began digging in the fields around Wolf's Castle and found something nobody expected. A Romano-British villa lay buried under one of the meadows. The Romans had never been thought ...

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