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Weobley Castle, Castell Weble, is a high-society home with its very own watchtower, and your abiding memory of it will be its dramatic location on the windswept north coast of Gower, overlooking Llanrhidian marsh with the wild Llwchwr estuary beyond. A fortified manor house, it was raised in stages about 700 years ago by the de la Bere family, stewards to the lords of Gower, most of the work falling to David de la Bere between 1304 and 1327; the grand hall, guest chambers with indoor latrines and the lord's solar suggest considerable splendour, while crenellated wall-tops kept up appearances. Owain Glyndwr's uprising damaged it, and Sir Rhys ap Thomas, who backed Henry Tudor at Bosworth, added the two-storey porch. Reviewers praise the estuary views from the benches outside and the exhibition on Gower's castles, and explain that tickets are bought at the farmhouse, which also sells saltmarsh lamb; parking is a handful of spaces, and there is no cafe.
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- Weobley Castle09:30 – 18:00last admission 17:30
Opening times may change at short notice.
Open daily: 1 April to 31 October 9.30am to 6pm; 1 November to 31 March 9.30am to 5pm. Last admission 30 minutes before closing. Closed 24, 25 and 26 December and 1 January. Weobley is a joint-managed site run with the farm rather than staffed by Cadw: pay, or show your membership card, at the farm shop.
Terrain level 2, easy: about 50 m of grass to the castle entrance, with a steep and sometimes slippery cobbled entry, the castle on different levels with a few short steps up into the small exhibition room; difficult wheelchair access. Toilets in the farmhouse garden. Exhibition on the castle and other Gower castles, picnic table inside and benches outside overlooking the marshes; the farm shop sells saltmarsh lamb and ice cream but there is no cafe and reviewers found no guidebooks on sale. Explorer Passes are accepted but not sold here. Drones are not permitted.
Photo: Weobley Castle's west front and gateway, with its corbelled wall-tops, seen across the mown grass. Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weobley_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_7434380.jpg. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0. Resized and cropped for display; derivatives retain the source licence.
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Walking routes1 route
Llanrhidian to Cheriton walking route (Swansea Council, Visit Swansea Bay)(opens the full route on the National Trust site)
WalkDog access not confirmed13 km
