Castell Coch (Welsh for 'Red Castle') is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built above the village of Tongwynlais in South Wales. The first castle on the site was built by the Normans after 1081 to protect the newly conquered town of Cardiff and control the route along the Taff Gorge. Abandoned shortly afterwards, the castle's earth motte was reused by Gilbert de Clare as the basis for a new stone fortification, which he built between 1267 and 1277 to control his freshly annexed Welsh lands. This castle was likely destroyed in the native Welsh rebellion of 1314. In 1760, the castle ruins were acquired by John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, as part of a marriage settlement that brought the family vast estates in South Wales.
John Crichton-Stuart, the 3rd Marquess of Bute, inherited the castle in 1848. One of Britain's wealthiest men, with interests in architecture and antiquarian studies, he employed the architect William Burges to reconstruct the castle, "as a country residence for occasional occupation in the summer", using the medieval remains as a basis for the design. Burges rebuilt the outside of the castle between 1875 and 1879, before turning to the interior; he died in 1881 and the work was finished by Burges's remaining team in 1891. Bute reintroduced commercial viticulture into Britain, planting a vineyard just below the castle, and wine production continued until the First World War. The Marquess made little use of his new retreat and in 1950 his grandson, the 5th Marquess of Bute, placed it into the care of the state. Since 1984, the property has been administered by Cadw, an agency of the Welsh Government, and is open to the public; it received 69,466 visitors in 2011.
jericho
So sorry for not commenting sooner! I have had a break from the flight sim and have just noticed that you have made a wonderful job of my request for Castell Coch cannot thank you enough😁
daveji
well done & thanks for this
hotzoner
Excellent! Now i have more reason to fly the gate to the valleys! 😀 Thank You for this! 5*s gone in, and an image too
RichDutt
Not all of us know how to install this, little help would be useful.
hotzoner
Extract the folder from the zip file, and put it into your community folder. I am not sure which Microsoft Flight Simulator you have (ie) steam/store etc. But it is simply a case of putting the extracted folder into your community folder, start/restart flightsim.
3 years ago
bookergrimm
Awesome. I have been waiting for this since the game's release. Well done!
hotzoner
I was also actually! was sad to not see this in the UK world update.
3 years ago