Rhuddlan Castle — Edward I's first major Welsh stronghold, where he promulgated the Statute of Wales in 1284 — was garrisoned during the Civil War and subsequently slighted by Parliament. The ruins that survive show extensive deliberate demolition. The Statute of Wales, issued at Rhuddlan, had formally imposed English law on conquered Wales — the castle's destruction by Parliament three and a half centuries later has a certain historical irony.
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