Denbigh Castle and Town walls

Denbigh Castle and town walls had been a hard and fast of fortifications constructed to govern the lordship of Denbigh after the conquest of Wales by King Edward I in 1282. The King granted the lands to Henry de Lacy, the Earl of Lincoln, who commenced to construct a new walled town, colonised by immigrants from England, included by means of a considerable fort and surrounded through deer parks for hunting. The paintings had no longer been finished by 1294, when the Welsh briefly seized the fortress in the course of the Madog ap Llywelyn rebel. The defences endured to be stepped forward, despite the fact that the citadel changed into no longer absolutely finished by the point of Henry's death in 1311.

The fortress exceeded between diverse owners within the first half of the 14th century, earlier than coming below the control of the Mortimer own family. Meanwhile, the walled city had proved impractical to live in, and a more moderen, plenty larger, settlement developed out of doors the defences. In 1400, the walled metropolis was raided for the duration of the Glyndr Rising, despite the fact that the castle itself remained comfortable for the duration of the rebellion. During the Wars of the Roses, Denbigh became attacked by using Lancastrian forces; the walled town was attacked and burnt. In the aftermath, the old metropolis became in large part deserted by using its inhabitants, the walled vicinity turning into an extension of the fort's defences.