What is recorded here

Hawarden Castle Gates is a castle, fort or tower in Flintshire, Wales. Perhaps the gates stood tall enough to block the sky when storms rolled across the flats. Maybe guardians watched the road through narrow slits while ordinary people passed below. Imagine the stone still holding the shape of hands that opened and closed it a thousand times.

A named place photographed at this map point in Flintshire.

Hawarden Castle Gates were part of the original 13th-century castle built by the Earls of Chester, later held by the Earls of Powis. The gates are remembered as a notable feature of a historically significant medieval fortress associated with Welsh and English border history.