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Laugharne Castle

Laugharne Castle (Welsh: ‘Castell Talacharn’) is a castle in the town of Laugharne in southern Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is located on the estuary of the River Tâf…

Llangar Old Parish Church

Small parish church with well-preserved eighteenth-century fittings. Includes impressive medieval wall paintings…

Llanmelin Wood Hill Fort

There is an Iron Age hill fort at Llanmelin, about one mile east of the village overlooking the Castrogi Brook and with distant views of the Severn estuary. The fort covers an area of 2.2 hectares (5.4 acres), with a small outpost enclosure to the north-east. It is believed to have been first built around the 4th century BC, and rebuilt and extended in the 1st century BC. Earthworks adjoining the fort to the south-east have been interpreted as funerary enclosures, suggesting to some that the fort was used as an oppidum or small town by the Silures. Finds of later Romano-British pottery have also been made at…

Llansteffan Castle

Llansteffan Castle is a castle overlooking the River Tywi as it enters Carmarthen Bay near the village of Llansteffan in Carmarthenshire, Wales…

Llanthony Priory

Llanthony Priory is a partly ruined former Augustinian priory in the secluded Vale of Ewyas, a steep sided once glaciated valley within the Black Mountains area of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Monmouthshire, south east Wales. It lies seven miles north of Abergavenny on an old road to Hay on Wye at Llanthony. The main ruins are under the care of Cadw and entrance is free…

Llawhaden Castle

Llawhaden Castle (Castell Llanhuadain) is a castle in the Pembrokeshire village of Llawhaden and 3 miles east of Wiston in south west Wales. Grid reference: OS map 158: SN 073175. The site is owned and managed…

Lligwy Burial Chamber

Lligwy Burial Chamber is a Neolithic burial chamber in Lligwy, near the east coast of Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom. It consists of a circle of upright stones, made into a low chamber by a very large roof slab estimated at 25 tonnes. Excavation in 1909 found the remains of some 15 to 30 people, and pottery suggesting a late…

Loughor Castle

Loughor Castle is located in the town of Loughor, Wales. Only a small ruin now remains on top of a mound overlooking the Loughor bridge. Rumour has it, there’s a secret tunnel running under it where buried treasure remains…

Maen Achwyfan Cross

Late tenth-century cross, richly decorated and showing Scandinavian influence…

Margam Stones Museum

Housed in an early church schoolhouse, the collection includes a number of important pre-Conquest early Christian memorials…