New Quay ( cy, Cei Newydd) is a seaside town (and

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) in

Ceredigion Ceredigion ( , , ) is a county in the west of Wales, corresponding to the historic county of Cardiganshire. During the second half of the first millennium Ceredigion was a minor kingdom. It has been administered as a county since 1282. Cer ...

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...

, with a resident population of around 1,200 people, reducing to 1,082 at the 2011 census. Located south-west of

Aberystwyth Aberystwyth () is a university and seaside town as well as a community in Ceredigion, Wales. Located in the historic county of Cardiganshire, means "the mouth of the Ystwyth". Aberystwyth University has been a major educational location i ...

on Cardigan Bay with a harbour and large sandy beaches, it lies on the

Ceredigion Coast Path The Ceredigion Coast Path ( cy, Llwybr Arfordir Ceredigion) is a waymarked long distance footpath in the United Kingdom, on the coast of Ceredigion, Wales. It is in length, running along the coast of Cardigan Bay from Cardigan t ...

. It remains a popular

seaside resort A seaside resort is a town, village, or hotel that serves as a vacation resort and is located on a coast. Sometimes the concept includes an aspect of official accreditation based on the satisfaction of certain requirements, such as in the Germa ...

and traditional fishing town, with strong family and literary associations with the poet

Dylan Thomas Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems " Do not go gentle into that good night" and " And death shall have no dominion", as well as the "play for voices" ''Und ...

, and his play, ''

Under Milk Wood ''Under Milk Wood'' is a 1954 radio drama by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for the stage. A film version, ''Under Milk Wood'' directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released in 1972, and another adaptation of ...

''.

History

Until the early 19th century, New Quay consisted of a few thatched cottages surrounded by agricultural land, the natural harbour providing a safe mooring for fishing boats and a few small trading vessels. The New Quay Harbour Act was passed in 1834 and a stone pier was constructed at a cost of £4,700. Trading activity increased and new houses were built as economic migrants arrived.

Shipbuilding Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to bef ...

began to take place and the town increased in size with the construction of terraced housing up the slopes of the sheltered bay. By the 1840s, more than three hundred workmen were employed in shipbuilding in three centres, New Quay itself, Traethgwyn, a bay just to the north, and Cei-bach, a pebble beach further north below a wooded cliff. Here were constructed not only smacks and

schooners A schooner () is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schoo ...

for sailing along the coast, but also larger vessels for sailing to the Americas and Australia. At that time, as well as

shipwrights Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels. It normally takes place in a specialized facility known as a shipyard. Shipbuilders, also called shipwrights, follow a specialized occupation that traces its roots to befor ...

, New Quay had half a dozen blacksmith shops, three sail makers, three ropeworks and a

foundry A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by melting them into a liquid, pouring the metal into a mold, and removing the mold material after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most common metals pr ...

. Most of the male inhabitants of the town were mariners or employed in occupations linked with the sea.Jenkins, J. Geraint. ''Ceredigion: Interpreting an Ancient County.'' Gwasg Careg Gwalch (2005) pg. 64. Several of the old warehouses remain, having been put to new uses. Lengths of chain, metal rings and capstans, and a list of tolls for exports and imports can still be seen outside the

harbourmaster A harbourmaster (or harbormaster, see spelling differences) is an official responsible for enforcing the regulations of a particular harbour or port, in order to ensure the safety of navigation, the security of the harbour and the correct opera ...

's office. By 1870, shipbuilding had ceased at New Quay but most of the men living there still went to sea. There were navigation schools in the town and many of the last

square rig Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular, or square, to the keel of the vessel and to the masts. These spars are called '' yards'' ...

gers that sailed the world were captained by New Quay men. Between 1850 and 1927, the Board of Trade issued 1,380 Merchant Master and Mate certificates to New Quay men. In 1907, a local newspaper noted that “New Quay... has more retired sea captains living in it than any other place of its own size in Wales.” At the 1939 War Register, there were 58 sailors (active and retired) living in New Quay, of whom 30 were master mariners, with more at sea who were not included in the Register. Florrie Evans, a local resident and daughter of a New Quay seaman, is reported to have started the 1904 Welsh Christian revival in New Quay. She went on to be a preacher and a missionary to India.

Governance

New Quay is the name of the

which is coterminous with the community. Since 1995 the ward has elected one county councillor to

Ceredigion County Council Ceredigion County Council ( cy, Cyngor Sir Ceredigion) is the governing body for the county of Ceredigion, since 1996 one of the unitary authorities of Wales. The council's main offices are in Aberaeron. History The current council was create ...

. At the local level, New Quay Town Council is composed of ten councillors.

Tourism and attractions

Key attractions for holidaymakers include the picturesque harbour and expansive sandy

beaches A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shells ...

, as well as opportunities, including boat trips, to see the population of

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s that lives in Cardigan Bay. The town has a

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and marine wildlife centre, as well as a tourist information centre. Nearby New Quay Honey Farm, the largest bee farm in Wales, has a live bee exhibition and sells

honey Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of plants (primar ...

mead Mead () is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops. The alcoholic content ranges from about 3.5% ABV to more than 20%. The defining characte ...

and

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. The outskirts of the town feature many large holiday parks and caravan sites. The annual Cardigan Bay

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, usually in August, has been conducted since at least the 1870s. Events now include inshore sports (swimming, rowing, etc.) and dinghy and cruiser racing. There are extensive beach walks, as well as cliff walks along the Coastal Path, south to

Llangrannog Llangrannog (sometimes spelt as Llangranog) is both a village and a community in Ceredigion, Wales, southwest of New Quay. It lies in the narrow valley of the River Hawen, which falls as a waterfall near the middle of the village. Llangra ...

and north to

Aberaeron Aberaeron, previously anglicised as Aberayron, is a town, community, and electoral ward between Aberystwyth and Cardigan, in Ceredigion, Wales. Ceredigion County Council offices are in Aberaeron. The name of the town is Welsh for ''mouth o ...

The National Trust The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a charity and membership organisation for heritage conservation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In Scotland, there is a separate and ...

Llanerchaeron Llanerchaeron, known as "Llanayron House" to its nineteenth-century occupants, is a grade I listed mansion on the River Aeron, designed and built in 1795 by John Nash for Major (later Colonel) William Lewis as a model, self-sufficient farm comp ...

estate is just a short drive away, as is the 18th century Ty Glyn Walled Garden in

Ciliau Aeron Ciliau Aeron ( en, where the valley of the river Aeron narrows) is a community and small village 4 miles from Aberaeron in Ceredigion, Wales on the left bank of the River Aeron. The community includes the village of Cilcennin. The word ''Ciliau ...

. Less than an hour's drive away, you'll find the neolithic Pentre Ifan Burial Chamber, as well as the Castell Henllys Iron Age Village. Restored steam trains on the Vale of Rheidol Railway leave from nearby

on the scenic route to Devil’s Bridge.

Local facilities

As well as shops, restaurants and pubs, New Quay has a large

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, a doctors' surgery, a small branch of the county library service, a

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and a Memorial Hall. There is also a public park at the top of New Quay next to the tennis court. New Quay Bowling Club is on Francis Street, at the top of the town. New Quay Golf Club first appeared in 1909, but closed in the 1920s. The nearest golf club today is Cardigan Golf Club. In addition to the hospitality industry, there is still significant employment in sea fishing and fish processing.

New Quay Lifeboat Station New Quay Lifeboat Station is an RNLI lifeboat station in the coastal resort of New Quay, Ceredigion, West Wales. It was established in 1864 and in 2014 celebrated 150 years of service. In 2014 the station operated two lifeboats: a Mersey class ...

, operated by the

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, houses two lifeboats: a Mersey class named Frank and Lena Clifford of Stourbridge in dedication to its main benefactors and an inshore inflatable D class. In 2014 the station celebrated 150 years of service, during which period it made 940 callouts. Public transport is provided by regular bus services to

, Cardigan and

. The town has never had a train service, as schemes to open routes to Cardigan or

Newcastle Emlyn Newcastle Emlyn ( cy, Castellnewydd Emlyn) is a town on the River Teifi, straddling the counties of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire in West Wales. It is also a community entirely within Carmarthenshire, bordered by those of Llangeler and Cenar ...

were abandoned in the 1860s, and that from the

Lampeter Lampeter (; cy, Llanbedr Pont Steffan (formal); ''Llambed'' (colloquial)) is a town, community and electoral ward in Ceredigion, Wales, at the confluence of the Afon Dulas with the River Teifi. It is the third largest urban area in Ceredigio ...

branch line (the

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) was never completed due to the

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Dylan Thomas

Dylan and

Caitlin Thomas Caitlin Thomas (née Macnamara; 8 December 1913 – 31 July 1994) was an author and the wife of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas. Their marriage was a stormy affair, fuelled by alcohol and infidelity, though the couple remained together until Dy ...

lived in New Quay from September 4, 1944, until July 1945, renting a cliff-top bungalow called Majoda. There were several other families from Swansea living in New Quay, who had come after the bombing of Swansea in 1941. His childhood friend and distant cousin, Vera Killick, lived next to Majoda, whilst her sister, Evelyn Milton, lived further along the cliff-top. Thomas also had an aunt and four cousins in New Quay, as well as a more distant relative, the First World War fighter pilot ace,

James Ira Thomas Jones James Ira Thomas "Taffy" Jones & Bar, MM (18 April 1896 – 30 August 1960) was a British flying ace during the First World War. Jones was born on 18 April 1896 at Woolstone Farm, near St Clears, Carmarthenshire. In 1913, Jones enlisted in th ...

, aka Ira Taffy Jones. Thomas had previously visited New Quay in the 1930s and then again in 1942-43 when he and Caitlin had lived a few miles away at Plas Gelli, Talsarn. His New Quay pub poem ''Sooner than you can water milk'' dates from this period, as does his script for the filming of Cardigan Bay for the final part of ''Wales - Green Mountain, Black Mountain''. One of Thomas' patrons was Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, whose summer residence was Plas Llanina, an historic manor house perched on the cliffs at Cei Bach, just a short walk away from Majoda. He encouraged Thomas to use the old apple house at the bottom of the manor's walled garden as a quiet place in which to write. It would have been an inspirational setting, and one Dylan Thomas scholar has suggested that the stories about Llanina's drowned houses and cemetery are "the literal truth that inspired the imaginative and poetic truth" of ''

''. Another important aspect of that literal truth was the sixty acres of cliff-top between Majoda and New Quay, including Maesgwyn farm (a name that appears in ''Under Milk Wood''), that fell into the sea in the early 1940s. New Quay, said Caitlin, was exactly Thomas's kind of place, "with the ocean in front of him...and a pub where he felt at home in the evenings.” and he was happy there, as his letters reveal. His ten months at Majoda were the most fertile period of his adult life, a second flowering said his first biographer, Constantine FitzGibbon, "with a great outpouring of poems." These Majoda poems, including making a start on ''

Fern Hill "Fern Hill" (1945) is a poem by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, first published in ''Horizon'' magazine in October 1945, with its first book publication in 1946 as the last poem in '' Deaths and Entrances''. Thomas had started writing ''Fern Hill'' ...

'', provided nearly half the poems of ''Deaths and Entrances'', published in 1946. There were four film scripts as well, and a radio script, ''Quite Early One Morning,'' about a walk around New Quay. This radio script has been described by Professor Walford Davies as "a veritable storehouse of phrases, rhythms and details later resurrected or modified for ''Under Milk Wood''." Not since his late teenage years had Thomas written so much. His second biographer, Paul Ferris, concluded that "on the grounds of output, the bungalow deserves a plaque of its own." Thomas’s third biographer,

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, concurred, describing the time in New Quay as “one of the most creative periods of Thomas’s life.” New Quay is often cited as an inspiration for the village of Llareggub in ''

''. Walford Davies, for example, has concluded that New Quay "was crucial in supplementing the gallery of characters Thomas had to hand for writing ''Under Milk Wood''." FitzGibbon had come to a similar conclusion, noting that "Llareggub resembles New Quay more closely han Laugharneand many of the characters derive from that seaside village in Cardiganshire..." Writing in January 1954, just days before the first BBC broadcast of the play, its producer,

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, noted that Thomas "wrote the first half within a few months; then his inspiration seemed to fail him when he left New Quay..." And one of Thomas's closest friends, Ivy Williams of Brown's Hotel,

Laugharne Laugharne ( cy, Talacharn) is a town on the south coast of Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Tâf. The ancient borough of Laugharne Township ( cy, Treflan Lacharn) with its Corporation and Charter is a unique survival ...

, has said "Of course, it wasn't really written in Laugharne at all. It was written in New Quay, most of it." Thomas's sketch of Llareggub is now online at the

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. The Dylan Thomas scholar, James Davies, has written that "Thomas's drawing of Llareggub is...based on New Quay." There's been very little disagreement, if any, with this view. A recent analysis of the sketch has revealed that Thomas used the name of an actual New Quay resident, Cherry Jones, for one of the people living in Cockle Street. Llareggub's occupational profile as a town of seafarers, fishermen, cocklers and farmers has been examined through an analysis of the 1939 War Register, comparing the returns for New Quay with those for Laugharne,

Ferryside Ferryside ( cy, Glan-y-fferi) is a village in the community of St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is south of Carmarthen near the mouth of the River Tywi. Originally a ferry crossing, then becoming a fishing village, it has developed as a ...

and

Llansteffan Llansteffan, is a village and a community situated on the south coast of Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on the estuary of the River Tywi, south of Carmarthen. Description The community includes Llanybri and is bordered by the communities of: ...

. It shows that New Quay and Ferryside provide by far the best fit with Llareggub's occupational profile. The writer and puppeteer, Walter Wilkinson, visited New Quay in 1947, and his essay on the town captures its character and atmosphere as Thomas would have found it two years earlier. There is, too, an online 1959 ITV film of the town and its people during the summer holiday season. Much of the location filming for ''

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'', a 2008 film based around Thomas and Caitlin's friendship with Vera Killick, was carried out in and around New Quay. It starred

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and

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. The film, said the scriptwriter, Sharman Macdonald, was a work of fiction: it was "not true, it's surmise on my part, it's a fiction… I made it up." One incident in the film that Macdonald did not make up was the shooting at Majoda in March 1945, after which Vera's husband, William Killick, was charged with attempted murder and later acquitted. The

Dylan Thomas Trail The Dylan Thomas Trail ( cy, Llwybr Dylan Thomas) runs through places associated with the poet Dylan Thomas in Ceredigion, west Wales. It was officially opened by Aeronwy Thomas, Dylan's daughter, in July 2003. It also featured in the celebrat ...

runs through

, in west Wales. It was officially opened by Dylan and Caitlin's daughter,

Aeronwy Thomas Aeronwy Bryn Thomas-Ellis (3 March 1943 – 27 July 2009) was a poet, writer and translator of Italian poetry. She was the second child and only daughter of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife, Caitlin Macnamara. She had two brothers, Ll ...

, in July 2003. The trail is marked by blue plaques, with information boards in New Quay,

and

. Two photographic online guides to the New Quay section of the Trail are also available. There are also a number of accessible day walks, including the Rev. Eli Jenkins' Pub Walk, which follows the river Dewi to the sea, passing close to the farm of the Cilie poets. Thomas and his family left New Quay in July 1945. By September, he was writing to Caitlin about finding somewhere to live, telling her he would live in Majoda again. He came back to New Quay at least twice in 1946, the first time in March, a visit he records in his radio broadcast, ''The Crumbs of One Man’s Year'', in which he writes about the “gently swilling retired sea-captains” in the back bar of the Black Lion. Then, in early summer, he was seen in the Commercial pub with jazz pianist, Dill Jones, who had been brought up in New Quay. Thomas's letter in August 1946 to his patron, Margaret Taylor, provides a vivid roll-call of some of the New Quay characters that he knew. Thomas also refers to New Quay in his 1949 broadcast, ''Living in Wales'' (“hoofed with seaweed, did a jig on the Llanina sands...”). He was still in touch in 1953 with at least one New Quay friend, Skipper Rymer, who had briefly run the Dolau pub in New Quay.

Plas Llanina

Plas Llanina is a mile or so to the north of New Quay on the cliffs above Traethgwyn and Cei Bach beaches. It is considered a good example of a small-scale, post-medieval gentry house. It has a chequered history, including some interesting owners and various stories associated with them. It belonged to the Musgrave family from around 1630. By the end of the 18th century it had passed into the ownership of the Jones family, the last of whom was Edward Warren Jones. When he died, he left the Llanina Estate to his two godchildren, Mrs Charlotte Lloyd (of Coedmore) and her younger brother, Charles Richard Longcroft. The house remained with the Longcrofts until about 1920, its last owner being Air Vice Marshal Sir Charles Alexander Holcombe Longcroft (1883-1958) who had been born and brought up at Llanina. He is considered a founding father of the

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. Sometime in the late 1930s, the house and grounds were rented by Lord Howard de Walden as a summer residence. In the late 1940s, it was bought by Colonel J. J. Davis and Betty Davis, who later moved to Ty Glyn in Ciliau Aeron. By 1964, Plas Llanina was derelict. It was subsequently bought in 1988 and rebuilt by a London banker.P. David (1998) ''The Tide Turns at Llanina'', in ''Welsh Historic Gardens Trust Bulletin'', Winter, p6, and online a
Rebuilding Llanina
/ref> The house sits next to the church of Saint Ina, with a public footpath to both the church and the beach.

References

External links

* Rod Atrill: ''New Quay Then and Now in Photos''
New Quay Then and Now
* Rod Atrill: ''A Brief History of New Quay in Photos''

* Rod Atrill: ''The Dylan Thomas Trail in New Quay''

* Andrew Dally: ''An Early Morning Walk Around New Quay'', 2016
On the trail of Dylan Thomas in New Quay
* D. N. Thomas: ''A Postcard from New Quay'' and other essays on Dylan Thomas, New Quay and ''Under Milk Wood'':
A Postcard from New Quay
* D. N Thomas: '' New Quay, Llareggub and the 1939 War Register''
Llareggub and the 1939 War Register
* D. N. Thomas: ''Dylan, Vera and The Edge of Love film'':
The Edge of Love: the Real Story
* Dylan Thomas: A ''Sketch of Llareggub'', National Library of Wales
Dylan's Sketch of Llareggub
with an analysis by D. N. Thomas a

Reading

* R. Bryan (2012) ''New Quay: A History in Pictures'', Llanina Books. * R. Bryan (2014) ''The New Quay Lifeboats: 150 Years of Service and Courage'', Llanina Books * S. Campbell-Jones (S.C. Passmore) (1974/75) ''Shipbuilding at New Quay 1779-1878'' in ''Ceredigion'', 7, 3/4. * J.A. Davies (2000) ''Dylan Thomas's Swansea, Gower and Laugharne'', University of Wales Press. * W. Davies and R. Maud, eds.(1995) ''Under Milk Wood: the Definitive Edition'', Everyman. * C. Edwards-Jones (2013) ''New Quay Wales Remembered'', Book Guild Publishing. * P. Ferris (ed.) (2000) ''The Collected Letters: Dylan Thomas'', Dent. * J.G. Jenkins (1982) ''Maritime Heritage:The Ships and Seamen of Southern Ceredigion'', Gomer * W. J. Lewis (1987) ''New Quay and Llanarth'', Aberystwyth. * S. C. Passmore (1986) ''New Quay at the time of the 1851 Census'', ''Ceredigion'', 3,5. * S.C. Passmore (2012) ''Farmers and Figureheads: the Port of New Quay and its Hinterland'', Grosvenor. * S. C. Passmore (2015) ''The Streets of New Quay'', Lulu Press * S. W. Rhydderch (2015) ''Ceredigion Coast: Llareggub and the Black Lion'' in ''A Dylan Odessey: 15 Literary Tour Maps'', ed. S. Edmonds, Literature Wales/Graffeg. * D. N. Thomas (2000) ''Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow'', Seren. * D. N. Thomas (2002) ''The Dylan Thomas Trail'', Y Lolfa. * D. N Thomas (2004) ''The Birth of Under Milk Wood'' in ''Dylan Remembered vol. 2 1935-1953'', Seren. * D. N. Thomas (2014) ''A Postcard from New Quay'' in Ellis, H. (ed.) (2014) ''Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration'', Bloomsbury * M. de Walden (1965) ''Pages from My Life'', Sidgewick and Jackson. * W. Wilkinson (1948) ''Puppets in Wales'', Bles. {{authority control New Quay, Towns in Ceredigion Beaches of Ceredigion Coast of Ceredigion Wards of Ceredigion Ports and harbours of Wales Seaside resorts in Wales Communities in Ceredigion