URPoint Details
WC; roadside car parking suitable for wheelchair users with a helper; cobbled path to entrance and grass interior. Access to exhibition via steps.
Guarding the ancient ford of the river Clwyd, Rhuddlan was the strongest of Edward I's castles in northeast Wales.
Begun in 1277, it was linked to the sea by an astonishing feat of medieval engineering, a deep-water channel nearly 3 miles long.
Some seventy 'dikers' worked continuously for three years to canalise the river, allowing Edward's ships to sail right up to the castle. Designed by the famous architect James of St George, the castle was the first of Edward's revolutionary 'concentric' fortresses. It still proclaims the innovative genius of its architect, and the achievement of the unsung labourers who toiled for just over a penny a day.
- Type:
- Landmark