Tretower Castle (Welsh: Castell Tretŵr) is a Grade I-listed ruined castle in the village of Tretower in the county of Powys, Wales. It was built around...
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off the Usk Valley. Tretower is frequented by tourists visiting the impressive Tretower Court and the nearby ruins of Tretower Castle, both of which are...
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evolved from the adjacent Tretower Castle site and is a very rare example of its type, in that it shows the way in which a castle] gradually developed into...
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Powis Castle (Welsh: Castell Powys) is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country house near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales. The seat of the Herbert family...
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Hay-on-Wye (redirect from Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye)
a motte and bailey castle there. A recently levelled platform under the car park to the northeast may once have housed the castle's bailey. This little...
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List of GWR 4073 Class locomotives (redirect from Tenby Castle (locomotive))
Below is a list of all 171 GWR Castle Class engines, built between August 1923 and August 1950. Five of these were converted to burn oil for a short period...
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Dolforwyn Castle Llangoed Hall Mediomanum Montgomery Castle Painscastle Powis Castle Tretower Castle Reservoirs and lakes Beacons Reservoir Cantref Reservoir...
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New Radnor (redirect from New Radnor Castle)
Presteigne and Kington Castle and later Huntington Castle near Gladestry. Attractions in the town include a significant castle [1] mound of a Norman motte...
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Priory, Tretower Castle, Tretower Court, the Iron Age hill fort of Crug Hywel, and the remains of Castell Dinas, an 11th to 13th century castle built on...
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Cwmdu Glangrwyney Llanbedr Llangattock Llangenny Llangynidr Tretower— Tretower Castle and Tretower Court, a manor house still in very good condition Cwrt y...
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Montgomery Castle (Welsh: Castell Trefaldwyn) is a stone castle looking over the town of Montgomery in Powys, Mid Wales. It is one of many Norman castles on the...
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website for Tregwehelydd Standing Stone Cadw website for Tretower Castle Cadw website for Tretower Court Cadw website for Twthill, Rhuddlan Cadw website...
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There are many examples of Georgian architecture within the town. Powis Castle is located to the north. Y Trallwng is the Welsh language name of the town...
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Warwick engaged Welsh forces at the Battle of Mynydd Cwmdu, near Tretower Castle a few miles northwest of Crickhowell, nearly capturing Owain Glyndwr...
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Fawr Castle Mathrafal New Radnor Castle Painscastle Castle Penarth Castle Rhayader castle Tinboeth Castle Tomen Castle Womaston Castle Castles of which...
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Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (category Burials at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle)
2021. Cokayne 1953, p. 458. The Picards or Pychards of Stradewy (now Tretower) Castle, and Scethrog, Brecknockshire, (London: Golding and Lawrence, 1878)...
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was established around a Norman stone castle on a crag on the western edge of the Vale of Montgomery. The castle had been built in the early 13th century...
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Sir Roger Vaughan (died 1471) of Tretower Court, was the son of Welsh noblewoman Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam and Sir Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine, who fought...
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Sycharth (category Castles in Powys)
Sycharth was a motte and bailey castle near Llansilin, Powys, Wales. Until 1996 Sycharth was in the historic county of Denbighshire, but was then transferred...
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Brecon (redirect from Brecknock Castle)
and the River Usk made for a valuable defensive position for the Norman castle which overlooks the town, built by Bernard de Neufmarche in the late 11th...
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the English Civil War. On 2 November 1644, Sir Thomas Myddleton of Chirk Castle was marching on Machynlleth with a force of the Parliamentarian army, when...
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Dolforwyn Castle Llangoed Hall Mediomanum Montgomery Castle Painscastle Powis Castle Tretower Castle Reservoirs and lakes Beacons Reservoir Cantref Reservoir...
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Knucklas (section The Castle Mound)
ancient monument in the care of Knucklas Castle Community Land Project and listed by Cadw, it is the site of a castle believed to have been built by the Mortimers...
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Castell). As Knighton Castle was captured and destroyed by Llewelyn ap Gruffyd in 1262, it seems likely that the second, later castle at Bryn y Castell was...
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Dolforwyn Castle Llangoed Hall Mediomanum Montgomery Castle Painscastle Powis Castle Tretower Castle Reservoirs and lakes Beacons Reservoir Cantref Reservoir...
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Dolforwyn Castle Llangoed Hall Mediomanum Montgomery Castle Painscastle Powis Castle Tretower Castle Reservoirs and lakes Beacons Reservoir Cantref Reservoir...
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Dolforwyn Castle Llangoed Hall Mediomanum Montgomery Castle Painscastle Powis Castle Tretower Castle Reservoirs and lakes Beacons Reservoir Cantref Reservoir...
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Dolforwyn Castle Llangoed Hall Mediomanum Montgomery Castle Painscastle Powis Castle Tretower Castle Reservoirs and lakes Beacons Reservoir Cantref Reservoir...
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SO0428) Dan-yr-Ogof Caves, Glyntawe (grid reference SN8316) Tretower Castle and Tretower Court (grid reference SO1821) Y Gaer, Brecon Roman fort (grid...
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