What is recorded here
Madryn castle Farm taught children to farm until 1954, when the school moved to Glynllifon. Its ledgers still list butter, eggs, milk, sheep, pigs and potatoes, proving the land was measured in daily life rather than forgotten. The castle name suggests older walls, but the surviving evidence is domestic: lessons written in cream, manure and market prices.
A named place photographed at this map point in Gwynedd.
Places near here
Mynedfa - Entry gate Madryn Castle FarmCastle, fort or tower · 39 yd
Madryn CastleCastle; Country House · 144 yd
Woodland on Foel DduForest or wood · 886 yd
Moel CaerauMountain / peak · 1129 yd
Carn Fadryn HillfortArchaeological place · 1175 yd
Garn FadrynMountain / peak · 1356 yd
Dinas Chapel (Welsh Calvinistic Methodist), DinasChapel · 1755 yd
Standing Stone, MeillionenStanding Stone · 1757 yd
Mochras-UchafDwelling · 1.0 mi
Coed BodgadleForest · 1.4 mi
Beach at Morfa NefynBeach · 2.6 mi
Lleyn cliff scenery at its bestCliff or headland · 2.9 miOther information
Photo: Alan Fryer · CC BY-SA 2.0