It was Marshal who transformed Pembroke Castle into the stone stronghold that endures to this day. After Marshal, the castle ...

Getty Images The 800-year-old Criccieth Castle is a native Welsh fortress on a headland between two beaches overlooking Tremadog Bay in north Wales Cadw, the historic monuments agency for Wales ...

In 1404 Owen Glendower captured it and held a parliament there. Twice it was the last Welsh fortress to surrender, both to the Yorkists in 1468, and to the Parliamentarians during the Civil War in ...

The town's name in Welsh is Dinbych-y-pysgod, which translates to 'Little Fortress of the Fish': a name that will make complete sense when you visit the town's small, but busy, harbour.

As a fortress Dumbarton Rock has a long and proud ... and a flourishing centre of a Britonnic culture that spoke Old Welsh, or Cumbric - a language now almost entirely forgotten.