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Abergavenny Castle
WLS Wales · 11th century
Abergavenny Castle (Welsh: Castell y Fenni) is a ruined castle in the market town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, established by the Norman lord Hamelin de Balun c. 1087. It was the site of a massacre of Welsh noblemen in 1175, and was attacked during the early 15th-century Glyndŵr Rising. William Camden, the 16th-century antiquary, said that the castle "has been oftner stain'd with the infamy of treachery, than any other castle in Wales."
It has been a Grade I listed building since 1952.
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Abergavenny Castle ranks #1,808 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #50 of the 66 mapped in Wales. Founded 1087, it is older than 91% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 171 atlas entries founded in the 11th century. See how Wales compares in the castle statistics.
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