What is recorded here

Twthill Castle is a Norman motte-and-bailey site near Rhuddlan, built in 1073 by Robert of Rhuddlan to consolidate conquest in North Wales. Its earthworks survived two centuries of use, witnessed the 1157 ambush of Henry II at Ewloe, and were later overshadowed by Edward I’s stone Rhuddlan Castle. Tradition places the older palace of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn beneath the mound, giving the hill a layered claim to memory. Today the tall motte and faint bailey traces remain open to visitors, preserving a borderland where Welsh resistance and Norman expansion repeatedly collided.

Twthill Castle 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.

Twthill Castle was built in the 13th century, likely by the de Lacy family, who were prominent lords in northern Wales during the Anglo-Norman period. It is remembered as part of the network of castles established to consolidate English control over the region following the conquest of Wales.

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