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Caerphilly Castle

castle in Caerphilly, Wales
Tourist Attraction Castle Q682601

Facts

22 properties
Instance of
castle
Inception
1268[10]
Founder
Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester[4]
Owned by
Cadw[6]
Country
United Kingdom[2]
Official website
cadw.wales.gov.uk, cadw.gov.wales[12][13]
Location
Caerphilly[8]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.576°, -3.220°
Short name
Caerphilly[20]
Area
+1.2[22]
Commissioned by
Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester[3]
Described by source
CastlesFortsBattles, Castellogy[14][15]
Elevation above sea level
+94.9[21]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Caerphilly Castle
Has part(s)
South-east tower, Caerphilly Castle[9]
Heritage designation
Grade I listed building, scheduled monument, National Monument of Wales[16][17][18]
Historic county
Glamorgan[23]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Caerphilly[1]
Maintained by
Cadw[5]
Native label
Castell Caerffili[19]
OS grid reference
ST1552787068[11]
Operator
Cadw[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Caerphilly Castle en Caerphilly Castle (Caerphilly, Wales) -- History cs Caerphilly es Castillo de Caerphilly fi Caerphillyn linna fr château de Caerphilly he טירת קרפילי it castello di Caerphilly ja ケルフィリー城 ko 카이어필리성 ms Istana kota Caerphilly pl Zamek Caerphilly pt Castelo de Caerphilly ro castelul caerphilly ru Замок Кайрфилли tr Caerphilly Kalesi zh 卡菲利城堡
🔖 Identifiers · 25
VIAF cluster ID
316594010
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Caerphilly aerial.jpg ↗
British Listed Buildings ID
300013539
Cadw Building ID
13539
Cadw Monument ID
GM002
Coflein ID
94497
Email address
mailto:CaerphillyCastle@wales.gsi.gov.uk
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Caerphilly-Castle
Freebase ID
/m/01zsx2
Gatehouse Gazetteer place ID
Welshsites/358
GeoNames ID
6286665
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1100241
Show all 25 identifiers +13
Google Maps Customer ID
14876615606274841791
Historic Place Names of Wales ID
babfea36-ab7e-4ede-a9df-fe5393a26042, 94e95137-21b0-4b35-94fa-2cbd98b4c586
Kulturenvanteri monument ID
368420
National Library of Wales Authority ID
caerphilly-castle-caerphilly-wales-aerial-photographs, caerphilly-castle-caerphilly-wales-history, caerphilly-castle-caerphilly-wales, caerphilly-castle-caerphilly-wales-2
Quora topic ID
Caerphilly-Castle
SNARC ID
Wikidata item
Setlist.fm venue ID
4bd51b32
Sketchfab model ID
caerphilly-castle-wales-uk-80076bde5246443fbb9ef91a80ffff74
Structurae structure ID
20015391
TermCymru ID
169435668
Tripadvisor ID
266768
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Castle", "CaerphillyCastle"], Entity["HistoricalSite", "CaerphillyCastle::wfzn9"]
World History Encyclopedia ID
Caerphilly_Castle
📚 Sources · 1
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
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🔗 Connections
Described by source 2
Castellogy, CastlesFortsBattles
Commissioned by 1
Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester
Country 1
United Kingdom
Founder 1
Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester
Heritage designation 1
scheduled monument
Historic county 1
Glamorgan
Instance of 1
castle
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Caerphilly
Location 1
Caerphilly
Maintained by 1
Cadw
Operator 1
Cadw
Owned by 1
Cadw
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  1. 19w ago · Vicarage · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → United Kingdom
    Short name → Caerphilly
    Operator → Cadw
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Caerphilly
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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