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Newcastle Castle
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castle in Bridgend, Wales, UK
Official website
Newcastle Castle | Cadw
A castle built to lastAlong with its neighbours at Coity and Ogmore, Newcastle Castle guarded the important river crossings which once controlled access into Glamorgan when much of this part of the country was under native Welsh control.The original castle here was most likely a less sophisticated earthwork, with the remains standing today dating from a later building period of renovation in the 1180s. At that point, the castle was held by Henry II, and this royal connection probably explains why it is so well constructed.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- castle
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Bridgend
- Elevation
- 48.4
- Owned by
- Cadw
- Operator
- Cadw
- Location
- Bridgend
- Image
- Newcastle Castle, Bridgend - Portal External South facing.JPG
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- Commons category
- Newcastle Castle, Bridgend
- inception
- 1106-00-00
- time of earliest written record
- 1106-00-00
- historic county
- Glamorgan
- maintained by
- Cadw
- P12749
- European Golden Plover
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