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Heavy horse working 12-14 April

Knucklas Castle Community Land Project Posted on 22 March 2013 by Kevin5 February 2015

On 12th to 14th April we will have a heavy horse working at moving some trees to a place where we can burn them. These have been cut down to improve the visibility of the castle site itself, with the advice of Cadw, and now need to be removed and … [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Posted in Access & maintenance, Archaeology & local history, Events, Promotions & publications | Tagged access, cadw, castle, trees

The thrilling touch of the past

Knucklas Castle Community Land Project Posted on 25 March 2010 by Kevin5 February 2015

Imagine unfolding a fragile piece of history,  a piece of parchment folded into a small rectangle with two red seals dangling from it, one so huge that surely the weight of it would rip it apart. How to get it out of it’s small square grey cardboard box where it … [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Tagged 1433, castle, history, knoclas, knucklas, lease, parchment

Arthur – the Warrior (King?)

Knucklas Castle Community Land Project Posted on 1 September 2009 by Publicity & promotions5 February 2015

Possibly the earliest reference of Arthur come from Y Gododdin written by the Welsh poet, Aneirin, c.6th century. Here, the poem only mentioned his name, once, referring to a warrior in the poem as being brave “but he was no Arthur”. “He charged before three hundred of the finest, He … [CLICK TO READ MORE]

Tagged arthur, king, knucklas, warrior

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Apple Day 8th October 2022

Come and enjoy all things apple!

Knucklas fete 2022

Please put the date in your diary for this year and you will be entertained by the Black Crow Vikings, Dog agility & Dog shows, Children’s races, Classic cars, a Tea tent, Beer tent, BBQ, Wood-fired Pizza and many local stall holders  selling their wares.

King Arthur book

A wonderful new book has been written by one of our members for youngsters to enjoy the legend of King Arthur. Look on the Shop page to see details and purchase.

Castle hill

A new view of the castle using LiDR technology has become available, look here: LiDR survey
Many thanks to Mark Walters for this new view.

It raises some interesting questions about the way the castle has been used over the many years of its existence.

We are also on the Welsh governments catalogue of heritage buildings here Coflein

Knucklas information

Knucklas has a village web site - see what is going on in the area at Knucklas and at Knucklas Community Centre Transport information is also on the village web site.

Wales interactive map

General Wales information, including castles
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