Mold Castle; The Bailey Hill; Castell yr Wyddgrug; Bryn y Beili — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Mold Castle rose on The Bailey Hill around 1140 when Robert de Montalt imposed a Norman stone jaw onto the Welsh landscape. Owain Gwynedd, Llywelyn the Great, and Dafydd ap Llywelyn took it back repeatedly, proving that the eastern cantrefi would not accept a foreign knot in their throat. The castle resisted through the wars of Edward I and Madog ap Llywelyn, but it faded after the last Lord Montalt died in 1329. The town remained, shaped by the castle's absence as much as by its stones.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Mold Castle; The Bailey Hill; Castell yr Wyddgrug; Bryn y Beili 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.

Mold Castle was built in the late 13th century by Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester, on the site of an earlier Iron Age hill fort. It is important as a strategic medieval fortress and for its association with the de Clare family, key figures in Welsh and English history.

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