Loughor Castle
Castle St, Loughor, Swansea SA4 6TS
Contacts
Castle St, Loughor, Swansea SA4 6TS
Description
Loughor Castle | Cadw
Thou shalt not cross 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. 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.
Features
- Wheelchair-accessible entrance
- Good for kids