Mold Castle
Flintshire, Wales
Mold Castle is a motte-and-bailey castle in Flintshire, Wales. Today it stands as a ruin. It is a scheduled monument. The nearest other castle is Ewloe Castle, 3.8 mi away.
Mold Castle at a glance
Type
Motte-and-bailey castle
Castle ruin
Condition
Ruin
Heritage status
scheduled monument
National Monument of Wales
Nearest castle
Ewloe Castle
3.8 mi away
About Mold Castle
Mold Castle (Welsh: Castell yr Wyddgrug), also known as Bailey Hill in the town of Mold, Flintshire, north-east Wales, is a motte-and-bailey castle erected around 1072, probably by the Norman Robert de Montalt under instructions from Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of Chester. Little remains except the mound on which the motte was built.
From the Wikipedia article on Mold Castle, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mold Castle sits at 53.1710, -3.1453 in Flintshire. The closest other castles are Ewloe Castle (3.8 mi), Halkyn Castle (4.3 mi) and Hawarden Castle (5.2 mi). Flintshire has 6 castles in all.
