What is recorded here

Pencoed Castle, Llanmartin is a medieval and post-medieval castle in Newport, Wales, recorded in the national monument list. Whether it stood as a home, a fortress or a marker of local power is no longer certain. The land may have swallowed its walls, roads or memory, leaving only a point on a map and a name that resists forgetting.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Pencoed Castle, Llanmartin as Castle from the Medieval; Post Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Pencoed Castle, Llanmartin, was built in the 13th century by the de Pencoy family and later held by the powerful Gamage family in the 16th century. It is remembered for its strategic position in the Gwent Valley and its association with the medieval lordship of Skenfrith.

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