Welsh Castle Index

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For convenience, the castles below are listed alphabetically. Most of the castle images here are from photographs and videos taken during our recent trips to Wales. The amount of information you'll find on a given castle can vary from a few sentences to several pages. Select the map page to help pinpoint locations for major castles, or click on the map below to display castles of a certain region. You may notice that not all of the castles listed below are found in Wales. These important Marcher castles found on the English side of the Anglo-Welsh border are denoted by an English flag.

While you may recognize many of the castles, others are less well-known and some, for all intent and purposes, are known only to serious enthusiasts. The conditions of castles listed vary greatly from nearly-complete fortresses to those with scant remains and others that can only be identified by their surviving earthworks. We include these "vanished castles" because many are noted in the historical record and several played important roles in the struggle for Welsh independence. As a supplement to this index, we are also in the process of developing a Welsh Castle Database which includes well over 400 known castles and castle sites.

One excellent source of information about Welsh castles is Wales - Castles and Historic Places, by CADW: Welsh Historic Monuments, used to describe some of the castles below. If you have information you'd like to share about anything you find here, especially the lesser known Castles of Wales, please send e-mail to jltbalt1@comcast.net. Your contributions to this page are always welcome! Diolch yn fawr!

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The numbers in brackets next to many of the index entries indicate the number of photographs accompanying that particular castle. Castles without numbers contain information only. Select the map page to help pinpoint locations for major castles.

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