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Carreg Cennen Castle

Castell Carreg Cennen is a castle near the River Cennen (Carreg being Welsh for stone), in the village of Trapp, four miles south of Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The castle’s location has been described as spectacular, due to its position above a limestone precipice…

Carreg Coetan Burial Chamber

Carreg Coetan Arthur is the name of a neolithic dolmen near Newport in North…

Carswell Old House

Distinctive two-storey later medieval house with a barrel-vaulted basement…

Castell Bryn Gwyn

Castell Bryn Gwyn is a prehistoric site on the Welsh Isle of Anglesey, west of Brynsiencyn. Its name means "White Hill Castle". The original use of this site is uncertain although it may have been a religious sanctuary. Later Neolithic pottery indicates use in this period, and it may have been a henge monument at this time. The earliest bank and ditch belong to the end of the neolithic period (2500-2000 BC). During the Iron Age the present wall was built, and refortified in Roman times and later. The circular clay and gravel bank, still some 1.5m high, surrounds a level area some 54 metres in diameter, now revetted by…

Castell Coch

Castell Coch (English: Red Castle) is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built on the remains of a genuine 13th-century fortification. It is situated on a hillside near the village of Tongwynlais, in the north of Cardiff in Wales…

Castell y Bere

Castell y Bere (Welsh: Castell y Bere) is a native Welsh castle near Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Gwynedd, Wales…

Chepstow Castle

Chepstow Castle (Welsh: Cas-gwent), located in Chepstow, Monmouthshire in Wales, on top of cliffs overlooking the River Wye, is the oldest surviving stone fortification in Britain. It was built under the instruction of the Norman Lord William fitzOsbern, soon made Earl of Hereford, from 1067, and was the southernmost of a chain of castles built along the English-Welsh border in the Welsh Marches…

Chepstow Port Wall

The town wall, locally known as the Port Wall, was built about this time, and mostly still stands. Particularly good sections can be seen at the Welsh Street car park, and either side of the A48 road. The Town Gate through the wall at the top end of the High Street was rebuilt in the 16th century and was used as a toll gate…

Cilgerran Castle

Cilgerran Castle is a 13th-century ruined castle located in Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, Wales, near…

Coity Castle

Coity Castle in Glamorgan, Wales is a Norman castle built by Sir Payn "the Demon" de Turberville (fl.1126), one of the legendary Twelve Knights of Glamorgan supposed to have conquered Glamorgan under the leadership of Robert FitzHamon(d.1107), Lord of Gloucester. Now in ruins, it stands in the Community of Coity Higher near the town of Bridgend, in the County Borough of Bridgend. Very close to the castle is the battlemented parish church of St Mary the Virgin, dating from the 14th century…