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Bodelwyddan Castle, Gasometer and Swimming Pool

Country House

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Bodelwyddan Castle, Gasometer and Swimming Pool stands in Denbighshire, Wales, as a Post Medieval country house. The gasometer and swimming pool suggest a grand estate where leisure and industry collided. Perhaps residents swam beneath brass tanks that hummed with captured air, blending pleasure and machinery into one strange ritual. The castle still holds that tension between domestic calm and industrial force.
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Bodelwyddan Castle, Gasometer and Swimming Pool as Country House from the Post Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Bodelwyddan Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Warenne family and later held by the Earls of Powys. It is important as a historic medieval stronghold and for its later 19th-century additions, including a gasometer and swimming pool, reflecting its adaptation for Victorian country house life.

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