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Hen Blas;Coleshill Castle

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Hen Blas;Coleshill Castle stands in Flintshire, Wales, surviving from the Medieval period as a recorded castle. Stone edges and forgotten rooms may still hold the shape of hands that built them, while men and women moved through darkness and firelight long before roads reached the hill. The castle does not need a legend to be strange because it is a chamber of time, waiting for someone young enough to remember what it swallowed.
The National Monuments Record of Wales records Hen Blas;Coleshill Castle as Castle from the Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Hen Blas, also known as Coleshill Castle, was a medieval castle in Wales, likely built by the de Braose family in the 13th century. It is remembered for its strategic significance in the Welsh Marches and its association with the turbulent history of Norman expansion into Wales.

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