What is recorded here

Burgess Gate stands as the surviving northern entrance to Denbigh’s walled town, built between 1282 and 1294 under Henry de Lacy to control the region after Edward I’s conquest. Its limestone towers still display murder-holes, arrow slits and cannon scars from the 1646 siege, marking it as a place where pride and violence collided. The gate outlasted the abandonment of the old town and became part of the castle’s outer defences, turning a civic monument into a military barrier.

Burgess Gate is shown as a castle on the public map of Denbighshire. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Burgess Gate was built by the de Montalt family in the 13th century and later held by the influential Clwyd family. It is remembered as a strategic stronghold in the defense of the Welsh Marches during the medieval period.

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