The best-known castles and palaces in Wales
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Bangor is the base for the north: Penrhyn Castle is 2 km away, Castell Caernarfon 14 km and Castell Dolwyddelan 24 km, while Conwy Castle is 5 km from Llandudno and Rhyl has Rhuddlan Castle 4 km out. In the south, Caerphilly Castle fills the middle of Caerphilly, Raglan Castle is 15 km from Pontypool, Chepstow Castle sits across the Severn from Portishead, and Carreg Cennen Castle is 8 km from Ammanford.
RLQuest knows 126 named castles in Wales and 68 of them have a Wikipedia article, better than one in two. Ruins (115) are the other Welsh page. Many are listed under their Welsh names, Castell y Fflint and Castell Cydweli among them. In the app, a castle is a quest endpoint checked against your route, and the hill it stands on becomes yours on the map.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 74 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
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