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One thing's for certain: you can't miss Raglan Castle. If you're coming by car or coach, the castle ruins loom over the A40, one of the trunk-roads connecting the Welsh towns of Abergavenny and Chepstow with the borders of England. Even today, the ruined castle evokes some of the magnificence and grandeur of its heyday - back in the c17th. Raglan has a rather checkered history - it started life, in late Medieval times, as a real fortified castle. However, being built during a peaceful period…

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Raglan Castle,Monmouthshire,Wales.A corner of the moat at Raglan Castle Raglan Castle, in Monmouthshire, is the boyhood home of Henry Tudor, later King Henry VII. Although there had been a castle on this site since the twelfth century, the late medieval structure visible today dates mostly from the fifteenth. Although a defensive fortress, by the sixteenth century the castle had become the grand home of the Earls (later Marquesses) of Worcester. Raglan Castle, Henry Tudor, Henry Vii, Wars Of The Roses, Last Unicorn, King Henry, Grand Homes, A Castle, British Isles

Raglan Castle,Monmouthshire,Wales.A corner of the moat at Raglan Castle Raglan Castle, in Monmouthshire, is the boyhood home of Henry Tudor, later King Henry VII. Although there had been a castle on this site since the twelfth century, the late medieval structure visible today dates mostly from the fifteenth. Although a defensive fortress, by the sixteenth century the castle had become the grand home of the Earls (later Marquesses) of Worcester.

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