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Loughor Castle (Cadw)

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Loughor Castle
It’s easy to see why Loughor was built here. The ruins are those of a castle that commanded what was once a low-tide fording point across the Loughor Estuary.
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Location:
Loughor, Swansea, Swansea, Swansea, SA4 6TS
Telephone:
0300 025 6000
Email:
cadw@gov.wales
Website:
https://cadw.gov.wales/visit/places-to-visit/loughor-castle

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Facilities

  • Children Welcome
  • Pets Accepted

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About Loughor Castle (Cadw)

It wasn’t just the Normans who appreciated its strategic value. One thousand years earlier the Romans constructed the fort of Leucarum on this site. A 12th-century earthworks castle, burnt by the Welsh in 1151, was replaced in the next century with a stone fortress, a single tower of which survives along with the foundations of curtain walls.

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51.66228, -4.07717

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