Aberystwyth Castle had served as a royal mint for Charles I, producing silver coins from Welsh silver mines to fund the Royalist war effort. It was one of the last strongholds in central Wales to fall to Parliament. After its surrender, Cromwell ordered it slighted in 1649. The ruins that survive today — romantically photographed against the sea — are what Cromwell's engineers left after deliberate demolition.
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