File OxwichCastle 4.jpg thumb OxwichCastle and dovecote OxwichCastle occupies a position on a wooded headland overlooking Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula , Wales , United Kingdom UK . Although it may occupy the site of an earlier fortification, this is a castle in name only as it is a grand Tudor architecture Tudor manor house built in courtyard style. A product of the peaceful 16th century, Oxwich was built by Sir Rice Mansel to provide sumptuous accommodation. He gave it a mock military gateway complete with family coat of arms . Sir Rice s work was confined to the southern block and was completed between the 1520s and 30s. On Mansel s death his son, Sir Edward Mansel succeeded to the property and between 1560 80 created the much grander style multi storied range which contained an impressive hall and elegant long gallery a fashionable Elizabethan architecture feature. The six storey south east tower which still survives probably accommodated the family and servants. After the Mansels moved out in the 1630s the castle fell into disrepair and the south range was used as a farmhouse. The building is now in the care of Cadw . External links commons category inline OxwichCastle http www.llanegwad carmarthen.co.uk castleoxwich.htm llanegwad carmarthen http www.cadw.wales.gov.uk Details & photos http www.castlewales.com oxwich.html Details & photos oscoor gbx SS498862 coord 51.55463 N 4.16791 W region GB source enwiki osgb36 SS498862 display title Note WGS84 lat long, converted from OSGB36 grid ref Category Castles in Swansea Category Mock castles in Wales Category Grade I listed buildings in Swansea Category Country houses in Wales Category Article Feedback 5 Wales castle stub cy Castell Oxwich no OxwichCastle ... more details
ref Oxwich s main site of historical interest is the OxwichCastlecastle which is thought by many academics to be the most historic castle on the Gower Peninsula. The earliest evidence of it being inhabited ... oxwich.html title OxwichCastle accessdate 9 April 2012 publisher castlewales.com ref The parish church of St. Illtyd s overlooks Oxwich Bay . A place of worship has stood on this site ...infobox UK place country Wales static image File Oxwich st illtyd gower rb 200507.jpg 250px static image caption St Illtyd s Church latitude 51.560057 longitude 4.173732 official name Oxwich welsh name population population ref unitary wales Swansea lieutenancy wales West Glamorgan constituency westminster Gower UK Parliament constituency Gower constituency welsh assembly Gower National Assembly for Wales constituency Gower post town SWANSEA postcode district SA3 postcode area SA dial code 01792 os grid reference SS494868 Oxwich is a village on the Gower Peninsula , in the city and county of Swansea in south Wales . Oxwich is part of the small community Wales community of Penrice, Swansea Penrice which extends from the village of Horton to Oxwich Bay, and as of 2001 recorded a population of 454 inhabitants. ref cite book editor1 first John editor1 last Davies editor1 link John Davies historian editor2 first Nigel editor2 last Jenkins editor2 link Nigel Jenkins editor3 first Baines editor3 ... Church oxwich oxwich.htm title St. Illtyd s Church, Oxwich publisher the gower.com accessdate 9 April ... gower.co.uk Content pa showpage pid 50.html title Oxwich Church publisher explore gower.co.uk accessdate 9 April 2012 ref Tourism The Oxwich Bay Hotel is close to the church of St. Illtyd, set in eight acres of land overlooking the west end of Oxwich Bay. There is also a campsite in Oxwich with a heated swimming pool accepting tents and trailers. Geography and wildlife Oxwich Bay is one of the most .... An Oxwich Bay protection Fund was then launched, and a compromise was agreed to ensure limited ... more details
image OxwichBay.jos.500pix.jpg thumb Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula of South Wales Oxwich Bay lang cy Bae Oxwich is a bay on the south of the Gower Peninsula , Wales . Its landscape features sand dune s, salt marsh es and woodland . Oxwich Bay includes a 2.5 mile long sandy beach , accessible from the village of Oxwich . It is a popular spot for human swimming swimming and watersports including diving , sailing , water skiing and windsurfing . There is a public footpath along the cliffs from Oxwich Bay, around Oxwich Point, and to Port Eynon Bay. Buses run every couple of hours between Oxwich and Port Eynon. A wetland site at the rear of the dunes forms Oxwich Burrows National Nature Reserve ref http www.jncc.gov.uk pdf gcrdb GCRsiteaccount1988.pdf ref The dunes are crossed by a small stream called Nicholaston Pill. The bay ends at the eastern end with the cliffs of High Tor but at low tide, a continuous sandy beach connects with Three Cliffs Bay beyond. Submarine cables leave the mainland of United Kingdom Britain from Oxwich. These include the SOLAS cable across the Irish Sea , and the TAT 11 and Gemini North transatlantic telephone cable s. These latter two do not terminate here but instead continue on to France TAT 11 and England Gemini . On 1 February 2007, The http www.thetravelmagazine.co.uk Travel Magazine named Oxwich beach the most beautiful in Britain. ref http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi uk news wales south west 6375469.stm BBC News South West Gower beach named Britain ... beachguide beachguide.php?action display location&loc id 29 Forces of Nature Oxwich Bay Beach information http www.thegowercoast.com beaches oxwich bay Oxwich http www.geograph.org.uk search.php?i 2731799 www.geograph.co.uk photos of Oxwich Bay and surrounding area http www.bgs.ac.uk landslides oxwichBay.html Landslide at Oxwich Bay December 2009 British Geological Survey Gower Peninsula coord ... in West Glamorgan nn Oxwich Bay ... more details
The Castle may refer to Places The Castle at Budawang National Park , Australia The Castle volcano , a volcano in British Columbia, Canada The Castle Ramona, California , listed on the List of RHPs in CA NRHP in California , USA The Castle Atlanta , a landmark former residence in Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia The Castle Waltham, Massachusetts , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts, USA The Castle Marietta, Ohio , a NRHP home in Ohio, USA The Castle Saint Helena , the government buildings in Jamestown Other The Castle novel Das Schlo is a 1922 novel by Franz Kafka and its translations The Castle Kadare The Castle Kadare , 1970 novel K shtjella by Ismail Kadare The Castle film The Castle film , a 1997 Australian comedy film The Castle 1964 film The Castle 1964 film , a 1964 Danish film The Castle 1968 film The Castle 1968 film , a West German film adaptation of the Kafka novel directed by Rudolf Noelte The Castle game The Castle game , a videogame made by ASCII corporation The Castle radio series The Castle radio series , 2007 BBC radio comedy set in the Middle Ages See also Castle disambiguation Borgen disambig de The Castle no Slottet ... more details
, see List of castles . For similar but unrelated structures in Japan, see Japanese castle . PLEASE ... right 300px alt A castle high on a rocky peninsula above a plain. It is dominated by a tall rectangular ... the city. File Bodiam castle 10My8 1197.jpg thumb 300px alt A castle of square plan surrounded by a water filled moat. It has round corner towers and a forbidding appearance. Bodiam Castle in England surrounded by a water filled moat . A castle from Latin castellum is a type of fortification ... . Scholars debate the scope of the word castle , but usually consider it to be the private fortified ... in castle studies, the structures also served as centres of administration and symbols of power ..., a scientific approach to castle defence emerged. This led to the proliferation of towers, with an emphasis ... to maximise the castle s firepower. These changes in defence have been attributed to a mixture of castle technology from the Crusades , such as Concentric castle concentric fortification , and inspiration from earlier defences such as castra Roman forts . Not all the elements of castle architecture ... affect castle building until the 15th century, when artillery became powerful ... of the Tower of London , exemplifies all uses of a castle including city defence, a residence, and a place of refuge in times of crisis. The word castle is derived from the Latin word castellum ... from castellum . ref Harvnb Creighton Higham 2003 p 6 ref The word castle was introduced into English ... simplest terms, the definition of a castle accepted amongst academics is a private fortified residence ... 20th century, there was a trend to refine the definition of a castle by including the criterion ... 16 File Windsor Castle at Sunset Nov 2006.jpg thumb left 300px alt A castle, seen at the end of a long avenue, lit pink by the sunset. The castle gives an impression of tremendous size, and has an imposing, twin towered gatehouse and, to the left, a large round keep. Windsor Castle in England was founded ... more details
infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Castle to Castle title orig D un ch teau l autre translator Ralph Manheim 1968 image prefer 1st edition image caption author Louis Ferdinand C line illustrator cover artist Paul Bonet country France language French language French series genre Novel publisher ditions Gallimard Gallimard release date 12 June 1957 english pub date 1968 media type Print hardcover & paperback pages 315 isbn 978 2 070 21310 8 preceded by followed by Castle to Castle is the English title of the 1957 novel by Louis Ferdinand C line , titled in French D un ch teau l autre . The book features C line s experiences in exile with the Vichy France Vichy French government at Sigmaringen , Germany , towards the end of World War II . For the first U.S. edition, translator Ralph Manheim won the 1970 National Book Award in List of winners of the National Book Award Translation category Translation . ref name nba1970 http www.nationalbook.org nba1970.html National Book Awards 1970 . National Book Foundation . Retrieved 2012 03 11. br There was a Translation award from 1967 to 1983. ref Legacy Castle to Castle was mentioned in the biography of Jack Kerouac , Subterranean Kerouac by Ellis Amburn St. Martin s Press, 1998 . Kerouac was at dinner with Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows at their apartment when he described C line s work as a portrait of existence as rotten and mad p. 301 . References reflist Louis Ferdinand C line Category 1957 novels Category Autobiographical novels Category French language novels Category French novels Category Novels by Louis Ferdinand C line Category Novels set in Germany Category World War II novels 1950s novel stub fr D un ch teau l autre fa ... more details
Castle Street may be Castle Street, Bridgwater , England Castle Street, Cambridge , England Castle Street, Canterbury , England Castle Street, Edinburgh , Scotland Castle Street, Liverpool , England Castle Street, Oxford , England Castle Street, Reading , England Castle Street, Worcester , Massachusetts, USA See also 62 Castle St , a hotel in Liverpool, England Castle Street Row , a historic building in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA The Madhouse on Castle Street , a British television play Castle Square disambiguation disambig ... more details
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Bischofstein Castle lang de Burg Bischofstein may refer to Bischofstein Castle Germany , a castle on the Moselle river in Germany Bischofstein Castle Switzerland , a castle in the Swiss canton of Basel Land disambig ... more details
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Marienburg Castle may refer to Malbork Castle in Poland Marienburg Castle Hanover in Germany Marienburg Castle Hildesheim in Germany seealso Marienburg disambiguation ... more details
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Atalaya Castle may refer to Atalaya Castle Spain , a castle in Villena Alicante, Spain Atalaya Castle United States , a residence in Murrells Inlet South Carolina, United States disambiguation ... more details
wiktionary castle in the air Castle in the Air may refer to Castle in the Air novel Castle in the Air novel , a 1990 young adult fantasy novel by Diana Wynne Jones Castle in the Air film Castle in the Air film , a 1952 British comedy film See also Castles in the Air , a musical comedy Castle in the sky disambiguation disambiguation ... more details
Black Castle may refer to Buildings and structures Black Castle, East Lothian , hillfort in Scotland Black Castle of Moulin , castle in Perthshire, Scotland Black Castle, castle at Lough Gur , County Limerick, Ireland Black Castle Public House , Bristol, England Black Castle, ruin near Zlatno, Zlat Moravce District , Slovakia Other Black Castle album , by hip hop group Royal Fam The Black Castle , 1952 Universal horror film disambig ... more details
Hawarden Castle may refer to one of two sites in Flintshire, Wales, near the town of Hawarden Hawarden Castle medieval , a ruined castle Hawarden Old Castle Hawarden Castle 18th century , the home of William Ewart Gladstone, a former prime minister disambig ... more details
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