Welsh Castles Spotter’s Field Guide

A field guide to Welsh castles for adult history fans and castle visitors: how to tell a Welsh-built castle from an English royal one, D-shaped towers and walls within walls, how they were built, then 15 castles with dates and builders from Cadw, a timeline and every place the sources disagree.

What’s inside:

- How to use the guide (check access with each site before you go)

- Recognise it: the parts of a royal castle, walls within walls and tower shapes (our own drawings)

- Read the castle: Welsh-built or English royal?

- How they were built

- Supplied by sea

- 15 castles in Wales, with what Cadw says about each, and notes space

- Timeline

- When sources disagree: six questions with more than one answer

- Checklist of the 15 castles

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 18 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every fact is checked against named source pages from Cadw and UNESCO (checked 31 Oct 2026), and the sources are listed on the pack’s credits page. Where sources disagree, each version is shown with its source.

There are no photos in this pack: all drawings, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Drawings are simplified impressions: not photographs or copies of real objects, buildings or maps, not to scale, and not copied from any plan, print, photo or book, or from any guidebook or site plan. Not affiliated with Cadw, the Welsh Government, UNESCO or the Department for Education. Their names are used only to identify the sources we quote.

Licence: personal use. Print as many copies as you need for yourself and your household. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For club, school or commercial use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind welsh-castles.forts.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.