What is recorded here

Ogmore Castle rose beside the River Ogmore around 1106, joining Coity Castle and Newcastle Castle as a Norman shield wall across the Vale of Glamorgan. Welsh warriors overwhelmed the first lord in 1116, yet the stone bones survived every later storm to become a prison, a courtroom and a landmark. The Duchy of Lancaster still holds the keys, keeping the medieval frame open for anyone who walks its ruined chambers.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Ogmore 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.

Ogmore Castle was built by the de Bohun family in the late 13th century and later held by the powerful Bishops of Llandaff. It is important as a strategic medieval fortress and as a symbol of the region's turbulent history during the Norman conquest of South Wales.

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