Caernarfon Castle - Wales

Part of Tours By Tape : Wales ( United Kingdom ) narrated and written by Richard Mitchley Richard also runs a walking holiday company in Wales, vist his site at: http://www.dragontrails.com More tours by tape of Wales on YouTube
Coracles -Wales - Teifi Valley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUwlL8m8110
Tintern Abbey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHNsMaoNPQI
Chepstow Castle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf3LkXF2KR4
Penrhyn Castle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1jBznyy6z8

Edward I built castles and walled towns in North Wales to control the area following his conquest of the independent principality of Wales, in 1283.
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, prince of Wales, having rejected a bribe of one thousand pounds a year and an estate in England, if he would surrender his nation unreservedly to the king of England, had been lured into a trap on 11 December 1282, and put to death. His brother Dafydd ap Gruffudd had continued the struggle for continuing independence, but had been captured at Bera Mountain in the uplands above Garth Celyn, in June 1283.
Edward surrounded and overshadowed Garth Celyn, the royal home and the headquarters of resistance to English domination, with Caernarfon and Conwy castles, and later Beaumaris Castle. The other fortress in the iron ring encirling Snowdonia was Harlech Castle.
The site selected for Caernarfon was strategically important, located on the banks of the River Seiont where it flows into the Menai Strait. It had been the site of a Roman fort, and a later motte and bailey castle built c. 1090 by Hugh d'Avranches. The castle was, at the time, surrounded on two sides by water, and the other by the Caernarfon city walls, but in the 19th century, the area on the River Seiont was filled in to enlarge the port of Caernarfon, and is today part of the castle's car park.

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[anniemoonmaid]

made me laugh when he said, despite being overrun by the welsh it is still in a magnificent state of repair!! the bloody vandals! lol agree it is a magnificent sight and important part of our herritage, thank god Paul Williams is doing a great job looking after it. Annie Weston

[WeeeWriter]

This was a lovely video, thank you for displaying it.

[goddardchannel]

Was there in 1967 on visit from Ohio-still magnificent and totally unlike anything you experience here-I am curious though, when was the spelling changed from a v to an f?

[cyberax666]

Love the place

[matty123429]

went here last april nice time in wales castle was very interesting .long drive with caravan but wud go again ,from lancs

[mush1955]

Twll din in bob Sais ! Fe godwn ni eto !

[NottinghamForest22]

Longshanks is God

[TS50ER]

Yes, the comment about being overrun by the Welsh! Brilliant. Old Longshanks would be amused!