What is recorded here

Llawhaden Castle is a pentagonal ruin on a Pembrokeshire hill where Bishops of the Diocese of St David held Marcher power, and its surviving gatehouse still faces the River Cleddau like a guard that forgot the war. Bishop Adam de Houghton made it grand, but Bishop William Barlow stripped the lead roof and doomed the walls to rain. The castle did not fall in battle so much as it bled into other people’s roofs, leaving behind a hollow shape that the river can still see.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Llawhaden 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.

Llawhaden Castle was built by the de Lacy family in the 13th century and later held by the Gamage family. It is important as a well-preserved example of a medieval Welsh castle and is now a tourist attraction and museum.

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