Places to visit

Castell Crug Eryr

This Welsh motte and bailey castle is possibly twelfth century in origin and is made an earthwork bank and ditch surrounding an enclosure with a high castle mound. It fell to the Normans but was retaken by the Welsh and appears to have fallen into disuse after fourteenth century. The site is on the A44 about a mile northwest of the A44/A481 junction, southeast of Llandrindod Wells.

Builth Castle - Castell Llanfair-ym-Muallt

On the site of an earlier Norman motte and bailey castle that swopped hands between the Welsh and English the subsequent building was undertaken in the mid thirteenth century by Edward 1. The stone work has since gone and the remains seen today are of signs of earth covered walls. The site is off the A483 at Builth Wells/Llanfair-ym-Muallt south of Llandrindod-Wells.

Hay Castle - Castell Y Gelli Gandryll

This Norman castle was built at the beginning of the thirteenth century. The castle has swopped hands on a number of occasions and Llewellyn the Great sacked it in 1231. It also came under a failed attack at the time of Owain Glynd?r's rising. It fell into disuse in the sixteenth century and the remains today include a tower, gateway and walls. It is located southeast of Builth Wells in the centre of Hay-on-Wye (Y Gelli Gandryll) on the B4350.

Pen-Y-Beacon, Powys

This is the remains of a stone circle, with one larger standing stone with smaller stones adjacent to it. The site is located south of Hay-on-Wye

Bronllys Castle - Castell Bronllys

The north view of Brwynllys Castle in the county of Brecknock circa 1740 in collection of National Library of Wales

Bronllys Castle - Castell Bronllys is originally a Norman motte and bailey castle built in the early twelfth century the remains of a mid-twelfth century keep rising some 80 feet dominates the site. It is located off the A438/A479 southeast of the village of Bronllys which lies northeast of Brecon, Powys, Wales (Welsh: Aberhoonddu, Sir Powys, Cymru).

Brecon Castle - Castell Aberhonddu

Brecon Castle engraving by Samuel Sparrow 1786

Brecon Castle - Castell Aberhonddu stands on the site of a late eleventh century Norman motte and bailey castle with the remains of the motte and later thirteenth century stone keep visible in the Bishops palace. After swopping hands between the Welsh and English on several occasions the castle was eventually rebuilt in stone by the English in the early-mid thirteenth century. After falling into decay the remains of the castle was eventually converted into a hotel. The Castle is in the town of Brecon, Powys, Wales (Welsh: Aberhonddu, Sir Powys, Cymru).

Pen-y-Crug Iron Age Hillfort

Iron Age Hillfort Pen-y-Crug RCAHMW

Pen-y-Crug Iron Age Hillfort. This large hillfort enclosure is set on top of Pen-y-crug, a hill in the Brecon Beacons National Park (Welsh: Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog) in the county of Powys, Wales (Welsh: Sir Powys, Cymru). This steep hill gives commanding views of the surrounding area. There are a set of defensive ditches and ramparts around the summit with the inner being of impressive height. The site is off the B4601 road out of Brecon (Welsh: Aberhonddu).

Camlais Castle - Castell Camlais

Camlais Castle - Castell Camlais. There is now very little remaining of this twelfth century motte and bailey castle. A bank surrounded a mound and tower. The site is located southwest of Brecon (Welsh: Aberhondd)u and off the A4215 road southeast of Sennybridge, Powys, Wales  (Welsh: Pontsenni, Sir Powys, Cymru).

Cerrig Duon

Located south of Sennybridge off the A4067 stands Maen Mawr with outlying stones in upper Tawe Valley. An oval ring of low stones is about thirty feet from the stone.

Castell Blaenllynfi - Blaenllynfi Castle

Castell Blaenllynfi - Blaenllynfi Castle is a Norman castle built in the early thirteenth century and fortified in the fourteenth. The remains visible today include rectangular moat and a structure of four sides within it. There are some earthworks outside of the moat. The site is located southeast of Brecon ( Welsh: Aberhonddu( and about a mile north of the village of Bwlch on the A4560 road.

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