Cardiff town walls
Former walls around Cardiff, Wales / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cardiff's town walls were a Medieval defensive wall enclosing much of the present day centre of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, which included Cardiff Castle. It measured 1280 paces or 1.280 miles (2.060 kilometres) in circumference and had an average thickness of between 6 feet (1.8 metres) and 8 ft (2.4 m) and a height of 10 ft (3.0 m).
Cardiff town walls | |
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Cardiff, Wales | |
Coordinates | 51.4821°N 3.1787°W / 51.4821; -3.1787 |
Site information | |
Open to the public | Yes |
Condition | Small sections remain |
Site history | |
Built | On or before 1111 |
Materials | Stone |
Demolished | Parts demolished from mid 18th century |
It had five town gates and was first mentioned in the year 1111. Sections of the wall collapsed in the 18th century due to neglect, and many stones were then used as building material for other buildings in the town. The last large section of the wall was demolished in 1901. Now there are only two sections of the Medieval wall that still remain. One section of the wall supports a flower bed to the east of Cardiff Castle on Kingsway, and the second, larger section forms the rear of a shop on Queen Street in an unmarked alleyway immediately on the other side of Kingsway, between the Northgate Building and One Kingsway.