Kidwelly: Castle Kidwelly: Castle Cadw

Description


A spectacular castle, built, originally, by the Normans in the 12th century to subdue the Welsh, it swapped hands several time during the first hundred years or so, but then remained firmly in English hands through rebellions and uprisings, mostly due to its design of concentric rings of defence, outer walls, inner walls, lots of murder holes and arrow slits, it’s pretty much everything that you expect from a castle. Much of the site is in ruins today, but you can still get a good feel of the whole castle, and from the top of the still standing south tower you get views over the whole of the town, and much of the countryside beyond, emphasising quite how important this site was to keep. Nothing moved around this area without the castle knowing.

Charge


Charge

Getting There

From Swansea there are regular buses to Kidwelly
Latitude: 51.73956; Longitude: -4.305718
What3Words: hurls.then.diverged

Photos


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Web Link


www.cadw.wales.gov.uk
Disclaimer: Details correct at time of writing (06/08/2007), and on time of last update (11/08/2007) but may no longer be accurate, particularly if some time has passed.