The best-known ruins in Wales
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
Carmarthen is the base for Castell Llansteffan (12 km), Castell Talacharn (14 km) and Whitland Abbey (21 km). The north contributes Castell Degannwy 3 km from Llandudno, Dinas Emrys 23 km from Bangor, and Basingwerk Abbey 7 km from Flint. Bersham Ironworks, 3 km from Wrexham, is an industrial site, not a castle; Caerleon Castle is 4 km from Newport, and Pembroke Castle is on this list too.
RLQuest knows 115 named ruins in Wales, 25 of them with a Wikipedia article; the 126 standing castles have a page of their own. A ruin is rarely the whole outing, so a quest that ends at one usually comes with a decent walk attached. The app records that walk, confirms you reached the walls, and adds the valley to your map a tile at a time.
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 63 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.
