Pwllheli

Pwllheli
A view of Pwllheli and its marina from Pen-y-Garn
Pwllheli is located in Gwynedd
Pwllheli
Pwllheli
Location within Gwynedd
Population3,947 (2021)
OS grid referenceSH374350
Community
  • Pwllheli
Principal area
Preserved county
  • Gwynedd
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townPWLLHELI
Postcode districtLL53
Dialling code01758
PoliceNorth Wales
FireNorth Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament
List of places
UK
Wales
Gwynedd

52°53′13″N 4°25′05″W / 52.887°N 4.418°W / 52.887; -4.418


Map of the community

Pwllheli (Welsh: [pʊɬˈhɛli] ; listenⓘ) is a market town and community on the Llŷn Peninsula (Welsh: Penrhyn Llŷn), in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It had a population of 4,076 in 2011, which declined slightly to 3,947 in 2021;[1][2][better source needed] a large proportion (81%) were Welsh speaking.[3] Pwllheli is the place where Plaid Cymru was founded. It is the birthplace of the Welsh poet Sir Albert Evans-Jones (bardic name Cynan).

Pwllheli has a range of shops and other services. As a local railhead with a market every Wednesday, the town is a gathering point for the peninsula's population.

Etymology

The town's name means salt-water pool.[4]

History

Donkeys outside a warehouse in Pwllheli, circa 1885.
Albert Evans-Jones (Cynan)

The town was given its charter as a borough by Edward, the Black Prince in 1355;[5] a market is still held each Wednesday in the centre of the town on Y Maes (‘the field’ or ‘the town square’ in English).

The town grew around the shipbuilding and fishing industries and the granite quarry at Gimlet Rock (Welsh: Carreg yr Imbill).[6]

The population in 1841 was 2,367.[7]

During the 1890s, the town was developed by Solomon Andrews, a Cardiff businessman. This work included the promenade, roads and houses at West End. The Pwllheli and Llanbedrog Tramway was built, linking the town to Llanbedrog. The trams ran until 1927, when the section of track between Carreg-y-Defaid and Tyddyn-Caled was seriously damaged by a storm. Andrews ran the Cardiff Road section in 1928 and offered to sell the tramway to Pwllheli Corporation at the end of the season, but they did not take up his offer. He then sold the assets and the Corporation removed the tracks during the winter of 1928/29.[8]

Pwllheli, c.1778

Poet Albert Evans-Jones, who was an archdruid for the National Eisteddfod of Wales and was known by his bardic name 'Cynan', was born in Pwllheli. Before becoming an archdruid, he joined the First World War effort through the Welsh Student Company of the RAMC, serving in Salonika and France, initially as an ambulance driver and medic, later as the company's chaplain. He was the son of the proprietor of the Central Restaurant in Penlan Street, Pwllheli.

Governance

Old Town Hall, Market Square frontage

There are two tiers of local government covering Pwllheli, at community (town) and county level, with both councils using Welsh as their primary language: Cyngor Tref Pwllheli (Pwllheli Town Council) and Cyngor Gwynedd (Gwynedd Council). The town council is based at the Old Town Hall at 9 Penlan Street.[9][10]

Administrative history

Pwllheli formed part of the ancient parish of Denio (or Deneio).[11] It also was part of the medieval cantref of Llŷn, which in 1284 was made part of the new county of Caernarfonshire under the Statute of Rhuddlan.[12] Pwllheli was made a borough in 1355 under a charter from Edward the Black Prince.[13] The borough covered the same area as the parish of Denio.[14] The borough was reformed to become a municipal borough in 1836 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, which standardised how most boroughs operated across the country.[15]

The borough of Pwllheli was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. A community called Pwllheli was created instead, covering the area of the abolished borough. District-level functions passed to Dwyfor District Council, which was in turn replaced in 1996 by Gwynedd Council.[16][17]

Education

Ysgol Cymerau is the town's primary school.

Ysgol Glan y Môr was formed in 1969 by the merger of the former Pwllheli Grammar School at Penrallt and the Frondeg Secondary Modern School in Upper Ala Road to form a comprehensive school based on two sites in the town. The junior pupils (year 1 and year 2) were located at the Penrallt site and the senior pupils (year 3 and upwards) at a new complex in Cardiff Road. This new school was subsequently expanded to accommodate all pupils under the Ysgol Glan y Môr name.

The Penrallt site was later redeveloped as the Pwllheli campus of Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor. The façade of the main building of the old grammar school was retained and incorporated into the design of the current college buildings. Thus the 'old school' is readily seen from the town square (Y Maes), as it has been since the former Pwllheli County School moved to Penrallt in the early 20th century.

Transport

Pwllheli railway station

Pwllheli railway station is the north-western terminus of the Cambrian Coast Line, which provides services to Machynlleth; most trains continue on to Shrewsbury and Birmingham International. Services are operated by Transport for Wales.[18]

The railway line to Caernarvon, via the Carnarvonshire Railway, was axed under the Beeching cuts and it closed in December 1964.[19]

Pwllheli is connected to the wider road network by the A497 to Porthmadog and the A499 to Caernarfon. From there, major roads lead away from Gwynedd to the rest of Wales.

Bus services on the Llŷn Peninsula are operated by Berwyn Coaches and Nefyn. Routes connect the town with Aberdaron, Caernarfon, Nefyn and Rhydlios. Pwllheli bus station is sited in the town centre.[20]

Attractions

Neuadd Dwyfor

Pwllheli has a section of the Wales Coast Path along its shoreline.

Pwllheli Harbour and Hafan Pwllheli

Pwllheli Harbour with Snowdonia in the background.

Pwllheli has a small harbour at the confluence of the Afon Erch and Afon Rhyd-Hir.[23]

Hafan Pwllheli is a marina built in Pwllheli Harbour during the 1990s.

Arts

Pwllheli hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1925, 1955 and 2023, as well as an unofficial National Eisteddfod event in 1875.

Language

According to the 2011 Census, 80% of the population spoke Welsh.[24]

Sport and leisure

Pwllheli is home to association football team Pwllheli F.C., rugby union team Pwllheli RFC and running club Llŷn Striders. There is a hockey club, Clwb Hoci Pwllheli.

It is a hub for water sports, owing in part to a marina; Pwllheli Sailing Club and Plas Heli (the Welsh National Sailing Academy) are based here.

The town has two beaches, South Beach and Glan-y-don. South Beach stretches from Gimlet Rock, across the Promenade and West End, towards Penrhos and Llanbedrog. Glan-y-don Beach is on the eastern side of the river mouth and runs for 3 miles (5 km) from behind the marina workshops and out towards Penychain (holiday camp).

The town has a golf club on the Llŷn coastline.

Notable people

References

  1. ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Gwynedd Archived 22 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 14 January 2010
  2. ^ "Pwllheli (Community, United Kingdom) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  3. ^ Cyngor Gwynedd Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ www.pwllheli.org.uk
  5. ^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 719. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
  6. ^ "A glance back at history with Luned". BBC. 17 June 2006. Retrieved 21 February 2009. Another relaxing place in Pwllheli is Gimblet Rock. It is a rock which stands on the southerly side of the town. It was once a huge rock, but was used to make setts for the streets in England.
  7. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Vol.III, (1847) London, Charles Knight, p.1019
  8. ^ Narrow Gauge Railways in North Caernarvonshire, Vol 1 - West, (1981), J. I. C. Boyd, pp 211-221, Oakwood Press, ISBN 978-0-85361-273-5
  9. ^ "Contact". Cyngor Tref Pwllheli. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  10. ^ "Old Town Hall". Cadw. Welsh Government. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  11. ^ "Deneio Ancient Parish / Civil Parish". A Vision of Britain through Time. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  12. ^ Breverton, Terry (2009). Wales: A Historical Companion. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445609904. Retrieved 23 November 2024.
  13. ^ "Pwllheli". Coflein. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  14. ^ Parliamentary Papers. 1838. p. 115. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  15. ^ Municipal Corporations Act. 1835. p. 461. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  16. ^ "Local Government Act 1972", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1972 c. 70, retrieved 6 October 2022
  17. ^ "Local Government (Wales) Act 1994", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1994 c. 19, retrieved 9 October 2022
  18. ^ "Timetables". Transport for Wales. 2 June 2024. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  19. ^ Fifoot, Les; Wright, Paul (17 May 2017). "Station name: Caernarvon". Disused Stations. Retrieved 5 October 2024.
  20. ^ "Pwllheli bus services". Bustimes.org. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  21. ^ walesonline news
  22. ^ Cadw. "Town Hall (4566)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  23. ^ Morris, Ralph (2021). Cruising Anglesey and Adjoining Waters. 9781786791825. p. 180. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
  24. ^ "Pwllheli North". UK Census Data. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  25. ^ "Poet's joy at literary prize win". BBC News. 23 March 2005. Retrieved 19 May 2024.

Further reading

  • On Bonfires, Butlins and Being Welsh: Growing up in Pwllheli in the ‘50s and '60s by Jos Simon (2022, Y Lolfa)
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