Qualla: Ynys Llanddwyn https://qualla.com/ynys-llanddwyn 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: Ynys Llanddwyn https://qualla.com/ynys-llanddwyn Ynys Llanddwyn: Introduction https://qualla.com/ynys-llanddwyn/ Walk a mile along Newborough Beach at low tide and you arrive at the shrine of the Welsh equivalent of Saint Valentine. Ynys Llanddwyn is barely an island at all - a tail of land that the sea cuts free only when the high tide rolls in - but it has carried the same story for fifteen centuries. Dwynwen, a daughter of the 5th-century king Brychan Brycheiniog, came here heartbroken after a love affair ended badly. She prayed to be released from her feelings, devoted herself to God, and asked that lovers everywhere find better fortune than she had. Her feast day, 25 January, is still the day Wales sends cards and flowers.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/ynys-llanddwyn-wp/gcky-ynys-llanddwyn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ynys Llanddwyn: The Saint and the Ruin https://qualla.com/ynys-llanddwyn/ The roofless cruciform church on the dunes is what remains of the medieval shrine that grew up around Dwynwen's cell. Through the Middle Ages, pilgrims walked the same beach modern visitors walk, hoping to read their futures in the sacred fish that swam in her holy well. By the 1...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/ynys-llanddwyn-wp/gcky-ynys-llanddwyn-the-saint-and-the-ruin.mp3 0:06 2 full Ynys Llanddwyn: Tŵr Mawr and the Pilots https://qualla.com/ynys-llanddwyn/ At the far tip of the island, a short whitewashed tower called Tŵr Mawr - the Great Tower - marks where the western approach to the Menai Strait begins. The tower was adapted from an existing daymark and first lit in 1846, guiding ships into the narrow channel between Anglesey an...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/ynys-llanddwyn-wp/gcky-ynys-llanddwyn-t-r-mawr-and-the-pilots.mp3 0:06 3 full Ynys Llanddwyn: Rocks That Made Geological History https://qualla.com/ynys-llanddwyn/ What looks like ordinary coastline is anything but. The pillow lavas, jaspers and tortured rocks of Ynys Llanddwyn record a moment 600 million years ago when the floor of an ancient ocean was scraped onto a continental margin. Geologists have been studying this mélange - a chaoti...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/ynys-llanddwyn-wp/gcky-ynys-llanddwyn-rocks-that-made-geological-history.mp3 0:06 4 full Ynys Llanddwyn: A Reserve and a Film Set https://qualla.com/ynys-llanddwyn/ The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds chose Llanddwyn for its very first reserve in Wales in 1911, drawn by the cormorants, shags and oystercatchers that work the rocks. The whole island sits within the Newborough National Nature Reserve, which drew over 478,000 visitors ...

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