What is recorded here

Holt Castle rose as a five-towered sandstone fortress above the River Dee, built between 1282 and 1311 for John de Warenne. Welsh forces burned the nearby town in 1400 during the uprising of Owain Glyndŵr, but the castle resisted. Parliamentarians later captured it, yet Royalist retaliation saw thirteen soldiers killed and dumped into the moat. Sir Thomas Grosvenor stripped most of the stonework between 1675 and 1683 to rebuild Eaton Hall, leaving only foundations behind.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Holt 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.

Holt Castle was built in the 13th century by Roger de Montbegon, a Norman lord, and later held by the powerful Clwyd family. It is important as a strategic medieval fortress in north-east Wales and is remembered for its role in the conflicts between English and Welsh forces during the late Middle Ages.

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