Carmarthen Castle

A 12th-century Welsh castle, historic house and 18th-century landscape park, home to more than 100 fallow deer make Dinefwr Castle a truly amazing place. The castle overlooks the River Tywi near the town of Llandeilo, and there is a very defensible steep drop to the river of several hundred feet. It was first constructed on this site by Rhodri the Great, but no remains from this period have been found. Dinefwr later became the chief seat of Rhodri's grandson Hywel Dda, first ruler of Deheubarth and later king of most of Wales. Dinefwr became the stronghold of the princes of Deheubarth, and in the 12th Century was held by Lord Rhys, the most powerful of the Welsh princes at that time.

Free entry - More information - welshwildlife.org/castle-woods-llandeilo

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