Gwydir Castle
Sep. 24th, 2013 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaceyMilford Day Out
After the writing business at Milford is done, we usually take Friday as a day off and go somewhere as a group. This year it was Gwydir Castle. Not a fortified castle as you can see but an impressive house dating back in parts to the 14th century. It's been beautifully restored to its original condition, even to the extent of retrieving and reinstalling the original (fantastically carved) dining room panelling which had been stripped out, sold to America and had ended up in the Metropolitan Museum of Art before being brought back to Wales.
Photographs are not allowed inside the house, but believe me the inside is as impressive as the outside. It's in the Conwy Valley, south of Conwy itself. If you're ever close by, make an effort to go. The gardens are beautiful as well, and one of the original 12 Cedars of Lebanon still survives - planted in 1625 to celebrate King Charles' wedding.
After the writing business at Milford is done, we usually take Friday as a day off and go somewhere as a group. This year it was Gwydir Castle. Not a fortified castle as you can see but an impressive house dating back in parts to the 14th century. It's been beautifully restored to its original condition, even to the extent of retrieving and reinstalling the original (fantastically carved) dining room panelling which had been stripped out, sold to America and had ended up in the Metropolitan Museum of Art before being brought back to Wales.
Photographs are not allowed inside the house, but believe me the inside is as impressive as the outside. It's in the Conwy Valley, south of Conwy itself. If you're ever close by, make an effort to go. The gardens are beautiful as well, and one of the original 12 Cedars of Lebanon still survives - planted in 1625 to celebrate King Charles' wedding.
