Chirk Castle — a Marcher castle still lived in today — was seized by Royalist Colonel Robert Ellice in January 1643. A Parliamentary garrison later occupied it. The castle was one of the few Welsh castles to survive the Civil War without slighting, being occupied by Sir Thomas Myddelton, the Parliamentary commander whose family had owned it. The castle is now the only medieval fortification in Wales still occupied as a private home.
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