Conwy Town walls

Conwy's Town walls are a medieval protecting shape across the town of Conwy in North Wales. The walls were built between 1283 and 1287 after the inspiration of Conwy by way of Edward I, and were designed to form an incorporated gadget of defence alongside Conwy Castle. The partitions are 1.3 km long and encompass 21 towers and 3 gatehouses. The mission become completed the usage of huge quantities of labourers delivered in from England; the value of building the castle and partitions collectively got here to round £15,000, a massive sum for the period.

The partitions were slightly damaged throughout the insurrection of Owain Glyndwr in 1401, but political adjustments inside the 16th century reduced the want to maintain such defences around the town. The fortifications have been dealt with sympathetically throughout the development of the street and railway structures in Conwy during the nineteenth century and survived largely intact into the contemporary length. Today the walls shape a part of the UNESCO global heritage web site administered via Cadw. Historians Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham describe the defences as "one of the maximum astounding walled circuits" in Europe.