What is recorded here

Sea Defences from Criccieth Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Gwynedd, Wales. Perhaps the castle wall leaned out to meet the sea, forcing water to break against stone instead of swallowing the land. Maybe defenders watched the horizon from that edge, reading storms and invaders in the same foam. Imagine the cliff itself as a guardrail, built by human hands and sharpened by every tide since.

A named place photographed at this map point in Gwynedd.

Criccieth Castle, located in Gwynedd, was built by Llywelyn the Great in the early 13th century and later expanded by his son Dafydd ap Gruffydd. The castle and its associated sea defences are important as they reflect the strategic military architecture of medieval Wales and the efforts of the Welsh princes to resist English expansion.