WLS Wales
64 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins within 100 km of the city centre — every one on the interactive map, with photos, distances and directions.
The closest is Caergwrle Castle, 7 km north-west of the city centre; the most famous is Caernarfon Castle — #144 of 7,738 worldwide — 86 km west. The oldest dated site in the circle is Castra Deva Victrix, founded c. 50.
The 100 km circle reaches into 2 countries — Wales (34), England (30).
22 km north-east · Ruin
Beeston Castle is a former Royal castle in Beeston, Cheshire, England, perched on a rocky sandstone crag 350 feet above the Cheshire Plain.
21 km east · Palace & château
Peckforton Castle is a Victorian country house built in the style of a medieval castle.
14 km south-west · Castle
Chirk Castle is a Grade I listed castle located in Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales, 1.5 mi from Chirk railway station, now owned and run by the…
17 km north-east · Fortress
Deva Victrix, or simply Deva, was a legionary fortress and town in the Roman province of Britannia on the site of the modern city of Chester.
17 km north-east · Castle
Chester Castle is in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England. It is sited at the southwest extremity of the area bounded by the city walls.
25 km north · Castle
Flint Castle in Flint, Flintshire, was the first of a series of castles built during King Edward I's campaign to conquer Wales.
13 km south-west · Ruin
Castell Dinas Brân is a medieval castle, built by the Princes of Powys Fadog, which occupies a prominent hilltop site above the town of Llangollen in…
8 km north-east · Castle
Holt Castle was a medieval castle on the Welsh–English border, by the banks of the River Dee, in the village of Holt, Wrexham County Borough, Wales.
19 km south · Castle
Whittington Castle is a castle in northern Shropshire, England. The castle was originally a motte-and-bailey castle, but this was replaced in the…
22 km west · Castle
Ruthin Castle is a medieval castle fortification in Wales, near the town of Ruthin in the Vale of Clwyd.
17 km north-east · Fortress
Chester city walls consist of a defensive structure built to protect the city of Chester in Cheshire, England.
15 km north · Ruin
Hawarden Old Castle is a Grade I listed medieval castle near Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales.
+ 2 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
46 km south · Castle
Powis Castle is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country house near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales.
48 km south-east · Castle
Viroconium or Uriconium, formally Viroconium Cornoviorum, was a Roman city, one corner of which is now occupied by Wroxeter, a small village in…
41 km north-west · Castle
Rhuddlan Castle is a castle located in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, Wales. It was chosen as the location of a castle by Edward I in 1277.
38 km north-east · Ruin
Halton Castle is a castle in the village of Halton, part of the town of Runcorn, Cheshire, England.
41 km south-east · Castle
Shrewsbury Castle is a red sandstone castle in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
41 km north-west · Castle
Bodelwyddan Castle, close to the village of Bodelwyddan, near Rhyl, Denbighshire in Wales, was built around 1460 by the Humphreys family of Anglesey…
32 km north-west · Ruin
Denbigh Castle and town walls were built to control the lordship of Denbigh after the Conquest of Wales by Edward I of England in 1282.
53 km east · Castle
Mow Cop Castle is a folly at Mow Cop in the civil parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England.
49 km north-west · Palace & château
Gwrych Castle is a Grade I listed country house near Abergele in Conwy County Borough, Wales.
55 km south · Ruin
Montgomery Castle is a stone castle looking over the town of Montgomery in Powys, Mid Wales.
55 km west · Castle
Gwydir Castle is in the Conwy valley, Wales, a mile west of the market town of Llanrwst and 1.5 miles south of the large village of Trefriw.
28 km south-west · Castle
Sycharth was a motte and bailey castle near Llansilin, Powys, Wales. Until 1996 Sycharth was in the historic county of Denbighshire, but was then…
+ 5 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
86 km west · Castle · #144 worldwide
Caernarfon Castle is a medieval fortress in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The first fortification on the site was a motte-and-bailey castle built in the…
61 km north-west · Castle · #164 worldwide
Conwy Castle is a fortification in Conwy, located in North Wales. It was built by Edward I, during his conquest of Wales, between 1283 and 1287.
77 km west · Castle · #295 worldwide
Beaumaris Castle, in Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales, was built as part of Edward I's campaign to conquer north Wales after 1282.
78 km west · Castle · #330 worldwide
Harlech Castle in Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, is a Grade I listed medieval fortification built onto a rocky knoll close to the Irish Sea.
78 km south · Ruin · #360 worldwide
Ludlow Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in the town of Ludlow in the English county of Shropshire, standing on a promontory overlooking the…
75 km west · Ruin
Dolbadarn Castle is a fortification built by the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great during the early 13th century, at the base of the Llanberis Pass, in…
87 km east · Ruin
Peveril Castle is a ruined 11th-century castle overlooking the village of Castleton in the English county of Derbyshire.
61 km west · Castle
Dolwyddelan Castle is a thirteenth-century castle located west of Dolwyddelan in Conwy County Borough, Wales.
85 km south-east · Ruin
Dudley Castle is a ruined fortification in the town of Dudley, West Midlands, England.
84 km west · Ruin
Criccieth Castle is a ruined thirteenth-century castle in Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales.
69 km south · Castle
Stokesay Castle is one of the finest surviving fortified manor houses in England, and situated at Stokesay in Shropshire.
76 km west · Castle
Penrhyn Castle is a country house in Llandygai, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, constructed in the style of a Norman castle.
+ 21 more in this range — every one is on the interactive map.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q496368.
The Castlemap atlas maps 64 landmarks (35 castles · 3 fortresses · 2 palaces & châteaux · 24 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Wrexham, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Caergwrle Castle, a castle 7 km north-west of the city centre.
Caernarfon Castle, ranked #144 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 86 km west from Wrexham.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Castra Deva Victrix, founded c. 50 — 17 km north-east. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Liverpool (40 km) · Stoke-on-Trent (54 km) · Manchester (69 km) · Birmingham (97 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
