WAW030357 WALES (1950). View of Ewloe castle

Upper Ward

Lower Ward. That large oak tree may not have been a sapling when the castle was abandoned.

"West Tower"

Well

"Welsh Tower"

Ewloe Castle Postcode CH5 4HL Grade 1 listed building. Generally open to the public but not easily found. Expect to walk through a muddy ploughed field with no view of the castle to guide you. Or there is a steep footpath through Wepre Park however the park is closed at weekends and at 4.30pm on Monday to Friday!. It was probably built by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd ('the Last') after 1257 however. Ewloe Castle has the appearance of a motte-and-bailey castle. It has two courtyards with a D-shaped keep inside the upper ward with a curtain wall that forms a sloping stone revetment around the motte. At the western end of the outer ward is the ruin of a circular tower on a rocky knoll. Its D-shaped tower is unusual. Usually they project out from a curtain wall but at Ewloe it stands isolated in the middle of the upper ward surrounded by a curtain wall. However, a similar keep was built by Llywelyn the Great at Castell y Bere. By the late medieval period, the site was in ruins. Much of the castle's stone from its curtain walls and keep was taken away and used in later buildings around Flint, Mold and Connah's Quay. Source: Wikipedia [[Ewloe Castle]] Also see "Ewloe Castle", by Derek Renn and Richard Avent, Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments, Cardiff, 1995. Image: Copyright by the photographer Clint Heacock. Dated May 2007. Source: [[File:Ewloe Castle.JPG]]. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence.