WAW005925 WALES (1947). View of Dunraven castle

Dunraven Castle. CADW Register of Landscapes Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales Grade II Reference PGW(Gm)4(GLA) Scheduled Ancient Monument Reference Dunraven Castle hillfort (Gm 350) Site of a medieval castle (c 1530) (The Castle was built on the site of an early Iron Age Fort) Replaced by a now demolished Victorian mansion built about 1800 for Thomas Wyndham MP. The building was used as a convalescent hospital during World Wars I and II, and later as a Workers Tourist Authority guest house before being demolished in 1962/3. Dunraven Park contains an Edwardian summerhouse (c 1901) and a well-preserved 19th-century tower containing a banqueting room and ice-house. see also Wikipedia [[Dunraven Castle]] Steam Locomotive 4092 was named after the castle. There was also a Castle Class frigate which carried the name.