What is recorded here

Oystermouth Castle is a Norman stone ruin overlooking Swansea Bay where Welsh princes repeatedly burned and retaken the Gower Peninsula before the de Braose family rebuilt it into a comfortable lordly residence. Edward I visited in 1284, but the castle faded into a pleasant decayed shell by 1650, waiting centuries for George Grant Francis to restore its broken lines. The Beaufort line eventually gifted it to Swansea, returning a place of repeated conquest and domestic pride to the people beside the water it had always watched.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Oystermouth Castle 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.

Oystermouth Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Barry family, Norman lords of Gower. It is important as a well-preserved example of a medieval Welsh coastal fortress and as a historical site linked to the expansion of Norman influence in south Wales.

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