https://heritage.directory/Properties Heritage, the app that helps you find history. Featuring properties from CCT, English Heritage, Scottish Heritage Trust, Scottish National Trust, HHA, CADW and many independent sites. en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wiston Castle is a motte and bailey castle in the Pembrokeshire village of Wiston in south west Wales. It seems to have been abandoned during the first half of the thirteenth century so is one of the best examples of its type in Wales. The castle is situated opposite St Mary Magdalene Church and there are approximately 75 steps that go up to it. It is in the care of Cadw.The castle was founded by a Flemish knight called Wizo, from which the castle gets its name. The Welsh captured Wiston on 1147 and 1193, but on both occasions it was quickly recaptured.The Shell keep on the summit of the Motte is typical of Norman stonework. https://heritage.directory/properties/cadw/wistoncastle Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:18:50 +0100 https://heritage.directory/index.php?pcat=2&item=489 White Castle is the best preserved of the Three Castles, namely, White, Skenfrith and Grosmont. The heart of this castle is surrounded by powerful round towers.The Three Castles are usually grouped together because for a large part of their history they were part of a block of territory under the control of a single lord, Hubert de Burgh.Hubert had gleaned a great deal about military architecture from his time fighting in France. He rebuilt Skenfrith and Grosmont in stone, adding domestic apartments to both castles, so that they could be used as lordly residences. However, this doesn’t seem to have been the case with White. Rather than a nobleman’s residence, it seems to have been built for military work. A workhorse of a castle, you might say. The internal buildings did, however, include a chapel, hall and kitchen, but were more befitting a garrison commander than a great lord.After Hubert de Burgh, the Three Castles were held in royal hands, and in 1254 Henry III granted them to his eldest son, the future Edward I. The rest is, as they say, history! https://heritage.directory/properties/cadw/whitecastle Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:17:22 +0100 https://heritage.directory/index.php?pcat=2&item=488 Weobley Castle is a fortified manor house on the Gower Peninsula, Wales, UK in the care of Cadw. It is near the village of Leason overlooking Llanrhidian Marsh and the Loughor estuary. The castle dates from the 13th Century. It was attacked and damaged by the forces of Owain GlyndÅÃÂr in 1403. The most notable opportunity of visiting Weobley Castle is the chance to taste the much sought after "Gower Salt Marsh Lamb"http://www.gowersaltmarshlamb.co.uk/ Gower Salt Marsh Lamb is some of the rarest Lamb available in the United Kingdom. The Lamb has won several awards in its short history, and is a very respected meat amongst culinary experts. The farm shop is open all year round, with fresh lamb available in the summer months. https://heritage.directory/properties/cadw/weobleycastle Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:53:50 +0100 https://heritage.directory/index.php?pcat=2&item=487 Valle Crucis Abbey (Valley of the Cross) is a Cistercian abbey located in Llantysilio in Denbighshire, Wales. More formally the Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Valle Crucis it is known in Welsh both as Abaty Glyn Egwestl and Abaty Glyn y Groes. The abbey was built in 1201 by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor, Prince of Powys Fadog. Valle Crucis was dissolved in 1537 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and subsequently fell into serious disrepair. The building is now a ruin, though large parts of the original structure still survive. Valle Crucis Abbey is now under the care of Cadw. https://heritage.directory/properties/cadw/vallecrucisabbey Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:53:50 +0100 https://heritage.directory/index.php?pcat=2&item=486 Twthill (Welsh: Twtil) is a Norman castle located near the town of Rhuddlan, Denbighshire in Wales. Twthill castle is built to a 'motte and bailey' design and was erected by Robert of Rhuddlan in 1073 at the command of William the Conqueror to consolidate Norman advances into the north of Wales. It remained in use for two hundred years until Rhuddlan Castle was built, adjacent to Twthill, on the orders of Edward 1. Tradition has it that Twthill Castle was built on the site of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn's palace. Only the Motte mound remain today to the south of Rhuddlan Castle, standing 12 metres high with a maximum diameter of 80 metres, although impressions of the Bailey can been seen in the surrounding fields. Much of the site has degraded due to the sandy soil conditions. Twthill may sometimes appear in maps or documents with the alternative names of Toothill or Tot Hill. It is currently in the care of Cadw and is open to the public. https://heritage.directory/properties/cadw/twthillrhuddlan Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:53:50 +0100 https://heritage.directory/index.php?pcat=2&item=485 Restored courtyard house with origins in the fourteenth century. Rebuilt by Sir Roger Vaughan in the fifteenth century. Magnificent timberwork survives in the northern and western ranges, with later Classical-style windows dating to the 1630s. Recreated fifteenth-century garden. https://heritage.directory/properties/cadw/tretowercourt Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:53:50 +0100 https://heritage.directory/index.php?pcat=2&item=484 For over 900 years Tretower Court and Castle has been altered, adjusted and adapted. Much of this was done to keep up with style, fashion and the tastes of the time. The Picards and the Vaughans who lived here were rich influential Welsh families; the movers and shakers of their time. They needed a place to impress. And the sumptuous accommodation they created reflected their high status as Welsh gentry. When the Vaughans left in the 18th century Tretower Court became a working farm and where ladies and gentlemen lived, lambs and geese moved in! Now, in the 21st Century we’ve recreated a suite of rooms as they may have been in 1470 when the Vaughans were part of high society. Discover a sophisticated way of life: from intricately carved furniture right down to the pots and pans of a working kitchen. Experience 15th century living at its best. https://heritage.directory/properties/cadw/tretowercastle Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:53:50 +0100 https://heritage.directory/index.php?pcat=2&item=483 Fragmentary remains of an early Bronze Age standing stone. https://heritage.directory/properties/cadw/tregwehelyddstandingstone Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:53:50 +0100 https://heritage.directory/index.php?pcat=2&item=482 Neolithic chambered tomb constructed in three separate phases, around 3750-2250 B.C. https://heritage.directory/properties/cadw/trefignathburialchamber Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:53:50 +0100 https://heritage.directory/index.php?pcat=2&item=481 An area of outstanding beauty complemented by this outstanding beauty in stone. If only the walls could talk! The chants of countless monks echo through the masonry here. Despite the shell of this grand structure being open to the skies, it remains the best-preserved medieval abbey in Wales. Although the abbey church was rebuilt under the patronage of Roger Bigod, lord of nearby Chepstow Castle, in the late 13th century, the monastery retains its original design.Tintern was only the second Cistercian foundation in Britain, and the first in Wales. The present-day remains are a mixture of building works covering a 400-year period between 1131 and 1536. Very little remains of the first buildings but you will marvel at the vast windows and later decorative details displayed in the walls, doorways and soaring archways.The lands of the abbey were divided into agricultural units or granges, worked on by lay brothers.On September 3, 1536 Abbot Wyche surrendered Tintern Abbey to King Henry VIIIÃÂÂÂÄÂs officials and ended a way of life which had lasted 400 years.ThereÃÂÂÂÄÂs a lot still going on at Tintern Abbey 500 years on! A major two-year programme of conservation work has been completed on the iconic 13th-century west front ÃÂÂÂÀœ one of the great glories of Gothic architecture in Britain. The statue of Our Lady of Tintern is installed in the south aisle of the abbey for all to see. https://heritage.directory/properties/cadw/tinternabbey Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:53:50 +0100 https://heritage.directory/index.php?pcat=2&item=480