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After our visit to Chepstow Castle a three weeks ago I decided to join CADW (the Welsh Government's historic environment service), who this year, due to Covid are offering half price membership, and with travel restricted it seemed the ideal opportunity for visiting some Welsh castles etc. Then

annofowlshire mentioned in her blog about Raglan Castle and I realised it's only about an hour away from us, so yesterday we took advantage of our membership and went to take a look.

Raglan Castle isn't as old as Chepstow, having been begun in the 1460s, although there was some form of building in place before. The castle reached its greatest point in the Elizabethan period, until it was partially destroyed in 1646 during the Civil War.

It still looks very impressive:

I was particularly taken by some of the carvings:

Definitely a good trip

Crossposts: https://thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com/324571.html

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annofowlshire

When we were out in holiday in the area, we didn’t actually have Raglan on our list of touristy things to do. We had missed our junction on the A40 (oops) and while we were waiting for the next opportunity to get turned around, I saw this huge castle up on the hillside. Once we were in our AirBNB I looked it up on a map, and we went there the next day.

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Hm. Half price for membership? I may need to preemptively get a family membership for when we get moved....

From:

smallhobbit

We know the A40 and we still have to concentrate to take the right junction at times. The castle is in such a dominating position.

Definitely look into membership (you also get 10% off in their shop).

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annofowlshire

I just talked to the other half and we decided once we’ve exchanged contracts and have our completion date, we’ll get the membership (assuming it’s half price, still. If not, we’ll probably still get membership, but not until we’ve moved and settled in).