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The result was one of the great architectural marvels of the medieval age. And it all started with Flint Castle. It’s still remarkably intact, brooding alongside the Dee Estuary. It was here that King Richard II surrendered to the pretender Henry Bolingbroke. As no doubt you will remember from your Shakespeare. |
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Meet the ancestors
They call this the New Kitchen. Even though it was built in the 1770s. It’s one of the grandest rooms at Erddig, officially Britain’s second-favourite stately home.
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Crowd control, medieval-style
We Welsh have always been an independent lot. It didn’t always go down very well with our English friends across the border. A bit more than 700 years ago, Edward I was sufficiently fed up to start building a chain of castles all along the North Wales coast. Just to make a point.
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