Whitehall Boats

A natural harbor, it was quite incredible now, once a shipping center of vital importance for the Irish trade, and in 1804, over seven hundred ships were anchored there. With the advent of the industrial age, £ 12,000 was raised for the construction of new docks to improve his chances against those of the still untapped, Holy Isle (now the busy ferry port of Holyhead) to become the main port for Ireland. However, in 1837, with a single casting vote of the chairman of a Commons committee, hopes have been disappointed and now all that remains of the company is the "Whitehall", built as a hotel in anticipation of increase the number of passengers who (thankfully) never came, and the "Ty Coch - the hostel last survivor of the three whose village once supported. The Whitehall is no longer a hotel, but the Ty Coch continues to attract thousands of visitors each year.

This Ty Coch was built in 1823, red brick which is thought was used as ballast in a ship that had granite port to Holland. However, it is thought that there was an older building on the site, perhaps dating from the sixteenth century, and this is evidenced by the presence of windows and a fireplace in the cellar. Rather amusing, for the first five years of his life, he was the vicar of vicarage that Edem, and only after a parsonage was built beside the church in the village itself, which finished by the vicar moved, leaving her maid, Catherine Ellis, the building opened as an inn in 1842, providing refreshments to the workers of shipbuilding that worked on the beach.

If unique is the setting of the pub that Craig Rosenberg has chosen as one of the locations for his 2004 film "Half Light", which starred Debi Moore.

Further along the headland is the little cove close Rescue Bay, which houses the rescue Dinllaen Porth, who was to save lives on this stretch of coastline since 1864. In December of last year, eighteen vessels had taken refuge in the bay in anticipation of a storm. The shelter offered by the natural harbor of the port, however, offer no protection from the gale force wind from the north, and all ships were driven ashore and destroyed. Robert Rees, a local man, tied a rope around his waist, and with the help of four other men, managed to save the lives of twenty-eight seamen from ships in distress. Following the tragedy, the Rev. Owen Lloyd Williams Boduan written statement to the RNLI on the results of recent storms, and requested a rescue station to be established at Porth Dinllaen. The inspector RNLI lifeboats, visited the region following February, and recommended the formation of a lifeboat station, which was formally approved at an executive meeting in March 1864. The hangar was built at a cost of £ 140 and this was quickly followed by the arrival of the boat first time ever, all 36 feet long, 12 oars, cotton Sheppard, in August. Costing just £ 250, it was free and open to Caernarfon London by rail, and sailed for Porth Dinllaen.

Continuing this tradition, it is still local men (and woman) who, when the boom chestnuts, rushed to the station to man the boat. But he is now 47 feet long, Hetty Rampton, rattles by the slipway, and races across the bay at 18 knots, engines roaring.

Just beyond the lifeboat station on Carreg Ddu rock, there is a fine perspective from which to view the local gray seal colony, which can often be seen basking on the rocks just a few meters, sure sign of the good fishing.

The entire northern Lleyn has been identified as an area diverse in both habitats, species and Dinllaen Porth has been appointed as a Special Area of Conservation.