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Conwy Town Walls is a late medieval defensive fortification surrounding the town of Conwy in Gwynedd, Wales. Constructed between 1283 and 1287 under the direction of Edward I as part of his campaign to consolidate English control in North Wales, the walls were built contemporaneously with Conwy Castle to protect the newly established town and its important harbour. The circuit measures approximately 1,400 metres in length and comprises substantial stone walls up to 30 feet in height, originally pierced by three gates and strengthened by twenty-one towers at regular intervals. The walls represent one of the finest examples of late thirteenth-century military architecture in Britain and remain largely intact, having been continuously maintained and repaired through the medieval period and beyond.
Conwy Town Walls is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference CN014. View the official record →
Conwy Town Walls is a late medieval defensive fortification surrounding the town of Conwy in Gwynedd, Wales. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference CN014.
Conwy Town Walls dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a town wall. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Conwy Town Walls 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 CN014.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bryn Castell (5.6 km), Maen Penddu (5.8 km), Cefn Maen Amor stone circle (5.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 13 strands of Conwy Town Walls'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.
Conwy Town Walls stands on Ashgill Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ashgill. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.