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Penrhyn Castle

United Kingdom Gwynedd Bangor

Penrhyn Castle
Photo: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A vast neo-Norman castle built in the early 1800s for the Pennant family, whose wealth came from Jamaican sugar plantations and Welsh slate quarries. The rooms are full of extraordinary carving and a one-ton slate bed made for Queen Victoria.


The railway museum in the stables and the walled garden are worth a look. Mount Snowdon's foothills and Anglesey are close by.

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