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Mid Wales - Castles, Cathedrals,
Monuments,
Stately Homes & Palaces
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Since the stone age, man has been
creating majestic structures that we still marvel at
today. Whether you are interested in ancient monuments,
battlefield sites, re-enactments,
Roman and Norman forts and castles, Stately Homes, Country Houses, Historic
Cathedrals, Ruined Abbeys etc, this is the page that
should give you the information you need.
Here we try to list properties in
private ownership but open to the public (even if only
occasionally) as well as those in the care of the
National Trust or English/Scottish Heritage.
We know that not all the
properties in Mid Wales are listed. Please help us
make this guide comprehensive by giving details of
missing attractions
here.
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POWIS CASTLE & GARDEN
Welshpool, Powys, SY21 8RF
Tel: 01938 551920
Information Line: 01938 551944
Fax: 01938 554336
E-mail:
powiscastle@nationaltrust.org.uk
Web:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Opening Times: March to
Oct 29th, Thurs to Mon. Call to confirm
admission times and prices.
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The world-famous
garden, overhung with enormous clipped yews,
shelters rare and tender plants. Laid out under
the influence of Italian and French styles, the
garden retains its original lead statues, an
orangery and an aviary on the terraces.
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In the 18th century an informal woodland
wilderness was created on the opposing ridge.
Perched on a rock above the garden terraces, the
medieval castle contains one of the finest
collections in Wales. It was originally built
c.1200 by Welsh princes and was subsequently
adapted and embellished by generations of
Herberts and Clives, who furnished the castle
with a wealth of fine paintings and furniture.
A beautiful collection
of treasures from India is displayed in the
Clive Museum.
For further details about Powis Castle & Garden
in Welshpool, Mid Wales see our website.
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Cadw
Plas Carew, Unit 5/7 Cefn Coed, Parc Nantgarw,
Cardiff, CF15 7QQ
Tel: 01443 336000 Fax:
01443 336001
E-mail:
Cadw@Wales.gsi.gov.uk
Web:
www.cadw.wales.gov.uk
Cadw (to keep), has a mission to protect,
conserve, and to promote an appreciation of the
built heritage of Wales. This website contain a
search facility for historical buildings
throughout the Welsh countryside.
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Laugharne Castle
Market St, Laugharne, Carmarthen, SA33 4SA
Tel: 01994 427906
Re-opened to the public in the July of 1996
after twenty years of extensive excavation and
restoration, Laugharne castle stands on a low
ridge overlooking the wide Taf river estuary and
perhaps is today better know for its
associations with the poet Dylan Thomas instead
for its picturesque location. One of a string of
fortresses controlling the ancient road of
communication along the south Wales coast line
the castle as a long and chequered history. It
was originated as a Norman earth and timber
stronghold, mentioned in about 1116 as the
castle of Robert Courtemain, (but the first
record of the Norman castle is dated 1189),
re-built in stone during the 13th and 14th
centuries by the various successive generations
of the de Brian family. Great parts of their
works still survive, including the domed round
keep tower and the protruding mighty gatehouse
of the inner bailey constructed in a warm
red-brown sandstone with distinctive green stone
addictions.
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Brecon Cathedral
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Tel: 0 Fax:
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E-mail:
paul22@swanseaandbrecon.org.uk
Web:
www.churchinwales.org.uk
Take a virtual tour of Brecon Cathedral.
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St. Stephens Church
Llanstephan
E-mail:
IanPCharl@aol.com
Web:
www.wiz.to/llanstephan
St. Stephens Church founded in approximately the
13th Century. This small church is still active
today and is looking for volunteers to help with
its continued restoration.
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LLANERCHAERON
Aberaeron, Lampeter, SA48 8DG
Tel: 01545 570200
Fax: 01545 571759
E-mail:
llanerchaeron@nationaltrust.org.uk
Open 18th March to 30th
October. Wed - Sun & Bank Holiday Mondays; 11am
- 5pm (last admission 4pm). National Trust
property.
Llanerchaeron is a small
18th-century Welsh gentry estate, set in the
beautiful Dyffryn Aeron. The estate survived
virtually unaltered into the 20th century and
was bequeathed to the National Trust by J. P.
Ponsonby Lewes in 1989. The house was designed
and built by John Nash in 1794-96 and is the
most complete example of his early work.
Llanerchaeron was a self-sufficient estate -
evident in the dairy, laundry, brewery and
salting house of the service courtyard, as well
as the home farm buildings from the stables to
the threshing barn. Llanerchaeron today is a
working organic farm and the two restored walled
gardens also produce home grown fruit and herbs.
There are extensive walks around the estate and
parkland.
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POWIS CASTLE & GARDEN
Welshpool, Powys, SY21 8RF
Tel: 01938 551920
Information Line: 01938 551944
Fax: 01938 554336
E-mail:
powiscastle@nationaltrust.org.uk
Web:
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
Opening Times: March to
Oct 29th, Thurs to Mon. Call to confirm
admission times and prices.
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The world-famous
garden, overhung with enormous clipped yews,
shelters rare and tender plants. Laid out under
the influence of Italian and French styles, the
garden retains its original lead statues, an
orangery and an aviary on the terraces.
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In the 18th century an informal woodland
wilderness was created on the opposing ridge.
Perched on a rock above the garden terraces, the
medieval castle contains one of the finest
collections in Wales. It was originally built
c.1200 by Welsh princes and was subsequently
adapted and embellished by generations of
Herberts and Clives, who furnished the castle
with a wealth of fine paintings and furniture.
A beautiful collection
of treasures from India is displayed in the
Clive Museum.
For further details about Powis Castle & Garden
in Welshpool, Mid Wales see our website.
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