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Conwy Castle (a World Heritage site) within the walled town.
Disabled car parking there is a steep slope from the visitor centre to the castle which together with the cobbled paths in the castle can prove difficult to negotiate. Shop and exhibition are accessible to all. Toilets, between car park and shop RADAR key is held at desk.
The castle and town walls of Conwy are the most impressive of all fortresses raised by King Edward I to subdue Wales. Planned as a single unit and substantially built in an astonishing four and a half years (1283-7), they remain the finest and most complete example of a fortified town and castle in Britain.
Over three-quarters of a mile long, the town walls defended the largest of Edward's 'frontier towns'. They also acted as the outermost defences of the royal castle, an imposing compact eight-towered stronghold on a promontory. Nearest the town, the castles own outer ward housed the garrison. Then, doubly defended by town wall and outer ward, came the king's private apartments in the castle's inner ward, its towers still crowned by turrets for the royal standards.
The mastermind behind this tremendous triple fortress was the king's famous architect,
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- Landmark