Qualla: Beadnell https://qualla.com/beadnell en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Beadnell https://qualla.com/beadnell Beadnell: Introduction https://qualla.com/beadnell/ If you stand on Beadnell harbour wall and watch a fishing boat come in, you are looking at something genuinely unusual. The harbour entrance faces west, into the land. It is the only such harbour on the entire east coast of England. The arrangement is accidental - a quirk of the curved sandstone headland that shelters the bay - but it means Beadnell boats come home steering away from the open sea, towards the pub and the houses, which is a strange piece of geography for a coast where almost everywhere else the harbours face the storms head-on.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/u/beadnell-wp/gcyu-beadnell-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Beadnell: Bede's Hall https://qualla.com/beadnell/ The name Beadnell comes from the Anglo-Saxon Beadan-halh, meaning 'Bede's nook' or 'Bede's hall' - referring most likely to the Venerable Bede, the eighth-century monk and historian of Jarrow whose writings shaped the English understanding of their own origins. The earliest writt...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/u/beadnell-wp/gcyu-beadnell-bedes-hall.mp3 0:06 2 full Beadnell: The Pele Tower in the Pub https://qualla.com/beadnell/ Tucked inside The Craster Arms public house is a sixteenth-century pele tower - a small fortified stone building of the kind that dotted the Borders during the centuries of cross-border raiding. Pele towers had thick walls, narrow windows, and a single defensible entrance; they w...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/u/beadnell-wp/gcyu-beadnell-the-pele-tower-in-the-pub.mp3 0:06 3 full Beadnell: Ebb's Nook and the Time Team Dig https://qualla.com/beadnell/ On the headland that shelters the harbour stands Ebb's Nook, the ruined site of a small medieval chapel. The name remembers Saint Aebbe again. In 2012, the Channel 4 archaeology series Time Team came to Beadnell to investigate the site, digging trenches and producing one of their...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/u/beadnell-wp/gcyu-beadnell-ebbs-nook-and-the-time-team-dig.mp3 0:06 4 full Beadnell: Holiday Village https://qualla.com/beadnell/ Today, Beadnell is a small village - 545 people at the 2011 Census - whose economy runs largely on holidaymakers. Holiday homes have replaced most of the year-round houses; two large caravan sites and several campsites cluster around the village. A small amount of fishing still w...

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