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Ogmore Castle & Stepping Stones
Great photo opportunities
Dogs love to explore the castle (on lead)
It is unusual to still find places like this that are free to enter and can entertain the family.
Ogmore Castle isn't huge but you can roam freely in the ruins and the grounds.
Would recommend wearing some welly boots if you decide to cross the stepping stones!
Facts
The southeastern coastline of Wales is its most industrialized region, and contains its largest cities, Cardiff and Swansea. The portion of the M4 motorway that tracks through the south of Wales, from the Severn Bridge to just a few miles west of Swansea, offers dramatically contrasting vistas and some of the most chaotic traffic to be found in Wales, thanks to the never-ending construction and the never-ending factories.
It comes as quite a shock, then, to discover that this is also an area full of interesting historic and prehistoric relics. Indeed, the region known as South Glamorgan takes you away from the hustle and bustle of modern living, and sweeps you back in time to the Middle Ages, to the time when the Normans ruled the land and planted castles to ensure their dominion.
On a sunny afternoon, walking through the grounds, stepping across the river on the strategically placed line of stones, and climbing through the ruined castle brings the visitor an exhilarating sense of enchantment and serenity.
The contrast between the surrounding landscape, which in some ways is atypical of most castle locations, and the tumbled-down stones of the medieval fortress is striking and creates an air of romance. An unusually charming feature of the site is the white-washed, thatched cottage which adjoins the grounds and is still occupied.
Kirstie
31/12/2021 at 10:02 amHighly Recommended
This is a must for everyone to visit. Free to enter and only a stone throw away from ogmore beach which is dog friendly all year round. I would suggest getting there early as we visited mid afternoon and it was really busy