Denbigh Castle and town walls: another in the ring of castles built by Edward I to encircle and control the lands of North Wales after the conquest of Wales 1282. Edward granted the lands to Henry de Lacy, the Earl of Lincoln, who began to build a new walled town, colonised by immigrants from England, protected by a substantial castle and surrounded by deer parks for hunting. The work had not been completed by 1294, when the Welsh temporarily seized the castle during the Madog ap Llywelyn revolt. The castle passed between various owners in the first half of the 14th century, before coming under the control of the Mortimer family. Sadly, very little is left but the stunning views over the Vale of Clwyd.