What is recorded here

Conwy and Abergele are about ten miles apart, but distance does not matter when identity is clear. Gwrych Castle Park is recorded as a 19th-century park, and that much is enough to picture it: land shaped deliberately rather than left to chance. Whether it was made for display, defence, delight or all three at once, the act of shaping it still stands.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Gwrych Castle Park, Abergele as Park from the 19th Century period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Gwrych Castle Park, Abergele, was developed in the early 19th century by Thomas Williams, a wealthy Welsh industrialist, and later expanded by his son, William Williams. It is remembered as an example of early 19th-century landscape design and as part of the historic estate associated with the prominent Williams family of North Wales.

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