Celebrating St David's Day with Pembroke Castle

 Wales is often called the land of castles, and an awful lot of them were built by Edward 1st.  However, they had always been hill forts, wooden castles and hunting lodges built in Wales long before.  One of the oldest castles in Wales, and the birthplace of one of my favourite Kings, Henry VII, is Pembroke Castle.  It is a fabulous castle to visit, and has a magnificent round, stone keep built by William Marshall.  There is also the Henry VII Tower, where legend says 13 year old Margaret Beaufort gave birth to her only child, Henry Tudor, although it's more likely to have been the manor house built inside the castle grounds which no longer stands.

The fabulous round keep at Pembroke Castle.  In front is a map showing the castles and dates of when they were built.  There's a key that tells you which castles were built by the Normans, the Welsh Princes and Edward 1st.

View of Henry VII Tower from outside.

Inside the stone keep, which still has it's roof.

Plaque commemorating the birth of Henry VII.