Every Tuesday, we look back through the archives of Country Life to find interesting tales and pictures to share. Today we look at Raglan Castle in the Brecon Beacons. ‘For a brief time at the turn of ...

Raglan Castle, a magnificent Tudor-period sandstone structure, was not built specifically as a defence as the other great castles of Wales had been. Instead, it was designed mainly as a statement of ...

Wales, often referred to as the "land of castles", boasts over 600 historic fortresses for a memorable day out, and just an hour from Gloucester. One castle that should be on your must-visit list is ...

This grand, half-ruined castle was once home to a young Henry Tudor, who would become Henry VII, the king of England from 1485 to 1509. As a lad, he was sent to Raglan Castle to be raised by Sir ...

One of the main legacies of the bloody English Civil War was the destruction by Oliver Cromwell’s armies of once majestic Welsh castles, like that at Raglan in Monmouthshire, writes Dr John R Kenyon, ...

When my kids were growing up, I came to assess the success of any outing by the lack of crises. If no one threw up or got hurt and we came home with the same number of kids that we started with? That ...

A TALE of treachery at least had treacherous Welsh weather onside and a day of deluges gave way to a fine evening as The Lord Chamberlain’s Men brought Shakespeare’s bloody game of thrones to Raglan ...

A bit of a show-off in its day, this handsome Welsh castle is now partly ruined, but comes with all the battlements, spiral stairs and moats a child could wish for, and makes a great-value day out In ...

One of the main legacies of the bloody English Civil War was the destruction by Oliver Cromwell’s armies of once majestic Welsh castles, like that at Raglan in Monmouthshire, writes Dr John R Kenyon, ...

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