Castell Coety

PricingFreeFree for all visitors

Free entry for everyone

Entry

Free for everyone

Pricing details

Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.

ParkingParking not known

The Trust's page does not say how parking is charged.

Parking details

There is no car park. Cadw provides one designated hard-standing space at the castle's entrance and otherwise asks visitors to park in the surrounding residential streets without blocking neighbours' drives or the field gate the farmer uses to reach his livestock; nothing is published about charges, so the status is recorded as unknown. Reviewers say there is room for about six cars if everyone parks considerately, and that street parking may be needed.

Driving pin: Cadw's marker at the west gatehouse, the main entrance, on West Plas Road. By road: Coity, 2 miles north-east of Bridgend, off the A4061. By rail: Bridgend, 3.2 km. National Cycle Network route 885 passes 3 km away.

About

Castell Coety, Coity Castle, is a romantic ruin in the village of Coity two miles from Bridgend. Begun as an earthwork castle around 1100 and granted to the Norman Turberville family, it gained its stone keep and curtain wall in the late 12th century, was rebuilt in the 14th century and again in the 15th after Owain Glyndwr laid siege to it. What survives is a circular inner ward with a three-storey keep, a 14th-century domestic block, a chapel at basement level and a well, ringed by a ditch and faceted curtain, with the outer ward's 15th-century west gatehouse as the entrance today. Reviewers find it compact and photogenic with more tall walls standing than most, worth 45 minutes; parking at the castle is a single space, so park considerately in the village. Dogs on short leads may explore the ground level.

Check today’s timesPick a day for times and prices

Today, Saturday 24 October

Castell Coety10:00 – 16:00last admission 15:30

Free entry

Opening times may change at short notice.

Open daily 10am to 4pm all year, last admission 30 minutes before closing; closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January. Cadw may close monuments at short notice in extreme weather.

Terrain level 1, accessible: most of the ground is flat grass or small gravel paths, with a few pieces of bedrock and protruding stonework; the route round the dry moat is narrow in places and slippery when wet, and the moat can flood deeply after prolonged rain, so do not climb down into it. The upper areas are closed as unsafe. No toilets or facilities; a small play park stands beside the castle. Drones are not permitted.

Dogs: Dogs on short leads are welcome on the ground level of the castle; the upper areas are closed to everyone.

Photo: The outer ward of Coity Castle seen from the west gate, with the keep, a tall chimney stack and the domestic ranges beyond the lawn. John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ruins_of_Coity_Castle,_viewed_from_the_West_Gate_(geograph_2125809).jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.