The Second Biggest Castle in Britain

Caerphilly Castle is located just north of Cardiff in Wales, and is a colossal medieval structure, like many of the castles in Wales built by Edward I. But, with this in mind, Caerphilly has a bit of a surprising history, and is a bit of a trailblazer for the next generation of British castles. Join me as I take a closer look myself and visit this amazing construction to find out for myself just what all the hype is about. Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@2Doug4James TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dougajames Twitter: https://twitter.com/Douglas33689714 Ben G Thomas: https://www.youtube.com/c/bengthomas Joe's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuCY7mOQWAVxe4fzwKN-UA If you think I've got something incorrect, please leave a (pleasant) comment about it down below, I'll check it out. If you do so, make sure to use some sort of reliable source, in oppose to a generic website/YouTube video/Wikipedia. If I conclude that I was wrong, I'll pin a comment about it, or just pin your comment. Music Attributions: Folk Round by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100357 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Renaissance by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/ Chapters: 0:00 An Expected Journey 1:06 The Marcher Lords 3:51 Edward I's Castles 6:48 Water Defences in Castles 10:54 Llewelyn and Gilbert 14:06 Caerphilly's Construction 15:44 The Great Gatehouse 18:03 Caerphilly's Place in History 20:57 Outro Sources: Brown, R. Allen, Allen Brown’s English Castles, 3rd edn (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2004) Carpenter, David, ‘Wales, Scotland and the Normans, 1058-94’ in The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284, (London: Penguin Books, 2004) Coulson, Charles L. H., Castles in Medieval Society, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) Liddiard, Robert, Castles in Context: Power Symbolism and Landscape, 1066-1500, (Macclesfield: Windgather Press, 2005) Renn, Derek, Caerphilly Castle, 2nd edn (Cardiff: The Westdale Press, 1997) https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=en&id=13539 https://biography.wales/article/s-LLYW-APG-1200 https://www.castlewales.com/clares.html https://caerphilly.observer/caerphilly/