The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . Photo by] li of. y. .I/,-) i^an Lewis, ON THE TEIVY. CARDIGAN BRIDGE. From an old painting. ~g=.. To face p. 345. CARDIGAN 345 the two strong citadel-towers, seen across the ward,are worthy of the old threatening name Cilgerranbore in the Castle time. The first Norman castle here was begun by Hugode Montgomery. Then Gilbert Strongbow triedhis hand on it. Rhys ap Griffith took it fromthe Normans, and held it at his pleasure. Thencame William Marshall, twenty-five years afterRhyss death, and began a castle on a bigger scal
The South Wales coast from Chepstow to Aberystwyth . Photo by] li of. y. .I/,-) i^an Lewis, ON THE TEIVY. CARDIGAN BRIDGE. From an old painting. ~g=.. To face p. 345. CARDIGAN 345 the two strong citadel-towers, seen across the ward,are worthy of the old threatening name Cilgerranbore in the Castle time. The first Norman castle here was begun by Hugode Montgomery. Then Gilbert Strongbow triedhis hand on it. Rhys ap Griffith took it fromthe Normans, and held it at his pleasure. Thencame William Marshall, twenty-five years afterRhyss death, and began a castle on a bigger scalealtogether. Previously Giraldus had seen the Castleon his Itinerary of 1188, and spoken of the salmonthat swam and the beavers that built their damsin the Teivy stream. Joan, whose grandfatherwas William Marshall, had Cilgerran as part ofher dot when she married William de Valence: andthis led the Castle into many fighting it remained intact all through the gunlessmediaeval days, and had its great commotion onlyin the Civil War, when Cromwells guns madethe big breach in the south-western tower, andprepared the place for the slow ruin which yousee
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