Denbigh Castle Exploration

[Thekingin64]

Not the best Topic title but here goes with my first trip report (as you might of guessed) of me exploring Denbigh Castle.

Part 1- Walls

The trip report starts on the walls as that's when I started taking the photos.

The first five photos are from by the Flag pole Facing different directions.

Towards Denbigh Asylum...

Into the Grounds of the Castle...

Towards the Entrance of the Castle...

Towards Denbigh...

Out over the welsh hills with my mum getting in the way...

This is the inside of what was one of the towers.

Along one of the walls.

Inside the Entrance tower.

Another Wall.

Final photo of this part showing one of the old dungeons.

Part 2- The Structure coming soon

 

[Uncle Arly]

I went past this when getting into Denbigh Asylum. I love castles, but the asylum was just so much better.

 

[furie]

I don't think I've been to Denbigh castle. I've been to so many I've lost track.

I love old castles though, there's something romantic and maudlin about them. I prefer ruins to intact castles, simply because intact ones (like Warwick) have lost their true history and it tends to be masked by much later modernisation. Though, it's sad going to a castle like Ludlow or Stafford which has fallen into ruin within the last century. There you know that at least some of the original could have been preserved. Still, you don't get a true idea of the castle when it's in ruins. It's like studying a skeleton of an animal and trying to work out what it was like when it was alive. I find it fascinating.

So it's great to see a castle this size in pictures. It's one of those wonderful sprawling affairs I really like. Hurrah for castle spotters

 

[Thekingin64]

Right then...

Part 2- Structure

This Part is basically the walls from the floor.

Down the big well that's there...

Past the well showing how big this place actually is...

There's no way you'll climb over this in a hurry

Big random boulder with some brickwork on the bottom...

Bit closer in on that brickwork...

The brickwork again. I took a lot of photos of it as it must have been from and old tunnel of some kind.

Bricked alcove in Castle wall where a candle probably went to light up the room I would have been standing in.

More of the wall...

Picture down the hole under the path...

Picture of the southern gateway. This gateway seemed a bit pointless as it led straight to the moat.

Third and final part coming soon.