Free entry for everyone; no membership card is needed.
No charge for anyone.
Cadw says parking and toilets are available at Denbigh Castle during castle opening times, with two charged Type 2 electric points in the castle car park, and the castle's access guide calls it a free gravelled car park with an accessible space, about 15 cars up a narrow road. Nearer the Burgess Gate, Denbighshire County Council's Mount Pleasant car park (8 spaces) is free and its Factory Ward long-stay car park (89 spaces) charges 8am to 5pm, 30 minutes free with a ticket, £1.50 an hour, £2.50 for three hours and £4.00 all day. Collect the wall-walk key at the castle, then walk down Castle Hill to the locked gate on Bull Lane, about 170 m, or start at the Burgess Gate; Cadw's own town walk returns through the woods to the castle car park.
Driving pin: Cadw's marker on the Burgess Gate, on the public street between Tower Hill and Leicester Terrace, 98 m from the Earl of Leicester's Church pin, 116 m from St Hilary's Chapel and 196 m from Denbigh Castle's car park; Cadw's what3words entrance point is the locked gate on Bull Lane where the key section begins. By road: Denbigh via the A525, A543 or B5382. Buses 151 and 152 from Rhyl stop 300 m away; rail at Abergele, 12 km; National Cycle Network route 5 passes 17 km away.
Denbigh Town Walls, Muriau Tref Dinbych, were the first line of defence for Denbigh's medieval castle. The rocky hilltop had been a stronghold of the Welsh prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd, but the walls that stand today are Edward I's work, begun in the 1280s before the castle itself, to protect the workforce. They enclose nearly five hectares of the old upper town, and most of the circuit survives with four towers and two gatehouses, of which the Burgess Gate on the north is the best preserved: a powerful twin-towered gatehouse with a vaulted passage and chequered sandstone facing like the castle's. On the east a spur wall drops from the Countess Tower to the shattered Goblin Tower, added to guard a well that helped the town survive the siege of 1646. The gate and circuit are seen free from the streets at any time; the wall walk, with very steep steps, opens with a key from the castle for a returnable deposit. Visitors call it quiet and seriously impressive.
Free entry
Wall walks: 1 April to 31 October 10am to 5pm, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays; 1 November to 31 March 10am to 4pm, closed Monday to Thursday; closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January; last admission to the wall walks 3pm. The key is available from Denbigh Castle during its opening hours, so that staff can check the walls first, for a returnable cash deposit; lock the gates behind you. No admission charge. The Burgess Gate and the walls seen from the streets are open at any time. Cadw may close monuments at short notice in extreme weather.
Terrain level 3, moderate: several steps leading to and along the walls, with some very steep sections of stairs between the Countess and Goblin towers, wet leaves and slippery surfaces under overhanging trees, and unprotected drops; use the handrails. Toilets at the castle visitor centre in castle hours. Drones are not permitted.
Dogs: Cadw: 'Dogs welcome' with no lead line; the walls are not on Cadw's dog-friendly list (Denbigh Castle is). The wall walk has very steep stairs.
Photo: The ruined spur wall of Denbigh's town walls by the Goblin Tower, with a railed path beside it and the town's rooftops and hills beyond. Jeff Buck, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Denbigh_Town_Walls_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4702596.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.
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Short town walk from the castle (collect the key) past St Hilary's Chapel and Lord Leicester's Church, along Leicester Terrace to the Burgess Gate, down to the High Street and back up Bull Lane through the locked gate onto the walls past the North-Eastern Tower, Countess Tower and salient to the Goblin Tower, out by a second locked gate and through the woods to the castle car park; lock both gates. Free; key deposit.
Dog access not confirmed
1.25 miles (2 km) including Vale Street, about 75 minutes, from Factory Place car park (LL16 3TS); through the Burgess Gate with views over the town along Leicester Terrace, onto the walls by the ramp opposite Leicester Terrace (key from the castle); some moderate uphill sections and uneven surfaces on the walls. Free.
