Caerphilly Castle
Friday, 24th March 2006 by
Caerphilly Castle is the largest castle in Wales and the second largest in Britain after Windsor castle. It is also one of the largest fortresses in Europe and is cunningly surrounded by shallow lakes to slow attackers and prevent tunnelling.
Unlike most of the other castles in Wales Caerphilly was not build by Edward I during his crack down on Welsh resistance. It was instead built in 1271 by Gilbert 'the Red' de Clare, a powerful nobleman of Norman descent who was squabbling with another nobleman of Welsh origin, Llywelyn.
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Caerphilly is home of the second best Subway in Wales!
I love castles, and it would be great to be able to view all the Welsh ones. The best are Caernarfon and Conwy, but unfortunately neither is in high resolution yet.
Here’s Caerphilly , mock medieval neighbor Cardiff built to the design of William Burges, for the Earl of Bute
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Nice- I love the detail you can see on these castles, this one and the one uncle wilco just posted. And Rich- doesn’t a certain stop at that subway have one of the longest place names in existance?
http://users.wpi.edu/~jamesv/shots/london/jan29/
day 1 of cardiff. never got around to uploading the shots of caerphilly..
-james
I think some of the longest transit stop names are (subway stations) Shitennojimae-Yuhigaoka (22 letters, or 23 using new romanization) or Nishinakajima-Minamigata (23 Letter) or Tsururumi-Riyokuchi Koen (23 Letters), Oosaka-Dome-Mae-Chiyozaki(22 Letters) (…or the granddaddy of them all (a Bus stop): Tenjimbashisuji Yonchome-Kita-Kuyakusho-Mae (39 Letters!!!! (note: this bus-stop actually moved and they changed the name to something quite a bit shorter))… This same city (Osaka) also has “Noe” (3 letters) and Yao (3 Letters)
-Karnack
Llanfairpwllgwyngychgwyndrobyllgogerychllantysiliogogogoch, is the longest Welsh place name.
Update. There is a place called “No” also in the Kansai area in a city called Hashimoto (A bit south of Osaka). There is a bus stop there too. 2 letters. 🙂
-Karnack
There’s definitly two in Wales. Wait, I have something lying around my house with this info, hold on…
I’m back.
First, a Gwynedd railway staton invented “”Lianfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch” (58 letters) as its name as a hoax. It means “St. Mary’s Church in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool of the church of St. Tysilo near the Red Cave”.
Then, the Fairbourne Steam Railway, also in Gwynedd, came up with this 67-letter beauty in order to outdo its competitor: “Gorsafawddachaidraigddanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion” It means “The Mawddach station and its dragon teeth at the Northen Penhyrn Road on the golden beach of Cardigan Bay”.
As of the beginning of 2004, they were, repectively, the 4th and 3rd longest place names in the world.
I actually meant Subway as in the sandwich shop!
Coincedentally the best Subway in wales is opposite Cardiff castle (linked above). Must be something about castles that make sandwiches great!
I took a keen interest in the Caerphilly castle during my brief stay at a billet north of town during WWII. I got to know a few local residents during the three month period. On one occasion myself and another US solder encountered a ghost while walking from Pontypridd to Caerphilly late at night. The encounter was on a small mountain. I am searching for anyone with information concerning sightings in this area. A local woman I met during my stay, was quite familiar with similar sightings in the area at the time. Is this still common local lore? Do you know of anyone that may have information about this?
would like to have more information on the area between pontypridd and caerphilly.to include the eglwysilan church
ok first do you guys mean like subway the eating place of like the train and guess what this is so gay i have to do a two page report on htis totaly gay castle i mean who cares its a piece of crap ruin basically stupid huh!!!!!!?