Castles were built in the marcher ... final nail in the coffin of the idea of an independent 'Wales' which had existed throughout the medieval period.

Today, visitors can tour the castle, entering through a floating footbridge. Actually a Tudor manor house built on the site of an earlier medieval structure in South Wales, Llancaiach Fawr has ...

Castles were built in the marcher ... final nail in the coffin of the idea of an independent 'Wales' which had existed throughout the medieval period.

There are roughly 427 castles in Wales, 100 of which are still standing. Here's a taster of some of them, taken by members of the BBC Wales Nature Flickr group. You can find out more about castles ...

Why Wales Is the Place to Go for Medieval Castles Wales has no shortage of magnificent castles—from the impenetrable stronghold of Harlech Castle, to the fierce fortifications of Carnarvon.

Wales and Northern Ireland and at 3rd Level in Scotland. Not everyone in the 13th century lived in castles. Ruth Goodman, Tom Pinfold and Peter Ginn visit a much humbler home to see how medieval ...

Margam Castle is part of Margam Country Park, a gorgeous 1,000-acre South Wales estate in the Neath ... And they also claimed to have “spoken” with a medieval monk called Brother Tom, seen ...

A recently rediscovered fragment of an abbot’s grave slab from North Wales may offer an unusual glimpse of a medieval personality. University of Chester archaeologist Howard Williams analyzed ...