RHUDDLAN CASTLE
Site Details
- NPRN
- 92914
- Map Reference
- SJ07NW
- Grid Reference
- SJ02467791
- Unitary (Local) Authority
- Denbighshire
- Old County
- Flintshire
- Community
- Rhuddlan
- Type of Site
- CASTLE
- Broad Class
- Defence
- Period
- Medieval
Site Description
Substantial remains of a masonry castle established with borough (nprn 15238) in 1277, replacing earlier castle site at Twt Hill (nprn 157156); castle demolished 1648. The castle is based on a quadrilateral, towered inner court, c.43m square, within a roughly concentric outer enclosure, the whole bounded by a broad stone-revetted moat, except where it rests on the river bank on the SW.
Associated with town defences to the NW (nprn 300415) and possible Edwardian defences to the SE (nprn 306672).
(source OS 495 card SJ07NW8)
J.Wiles, RCAHMW, 10 October 2002
