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Castell Caergwrle is a medieval castle of the thirteenth century situated on high ground near Caergwrle in Flintshire, North Wales. The castle comprises the remains of a stone-built fortification with a distinctive motte-and-bailey plan, featuring a raised mound surrounded by defensive ditches and fragmentary stonework of the castle structure itself. Constructed during the period of Anglo-Norman expansion into Wales, the castle served as a strategic stronghold controlling the local landscape and communications within the region. The site remains substantially overgrown and ruinous, though its earthwork elements and surviving stone foundations preserve evidence of medieval military architecture and settlement in medieval Flintshire.
Castell Caergwrle is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference FL020. View the official record →
Castell Caergwrle is a medieval castle of the thirteenth century situated on high ground near Caergwrle in Flintshire, North Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference FL020.
Castell Caergwrle dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a castle. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Castell Caergwrle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is FL020.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cadwgan Hall Mound (8.5 km), Offa's Dyke: Cadwgan Hall Section, extending from River Clywedog to the Railway (8.6 km), Erddig Mound & Bailey Castle (8.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Castell Caergwrle's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Castell Caergwrle stands on Millstone Grit Group [See Also Migr], bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.