Candleston Castle

Fantastic place to visit. Very easy with the castle almost in the car park. No money taken in the car park machines, card payments. The road to the car park is narrow but there are many passing places please drive with extra care as there are a lot of hikers /walkers enjoying the area. The castle is not actually a castle but an old fortified Manor House. Lots of information and history are readily available online if you search. Be minded this is a ruin but there is much to see here. The surrounding area is great for walks, especially with dogs, walking is popular here. A short distance is also the large sand dune known locally as The Big Dipper.

Not much left of it, little bit of architecture left, but it's a Nice Walk if you go from oxwich castle to cadleston castle over swing bridge, there's also a nice little church on the way, if you go round the back of the church you will see some really old gravestone that are under cover, very interesting, obviously nice walks for the dogs as well. If you have a look around by the car park you will see sand dunes you can walk down to Beach from here as well.

A lovely place for a visit, a few old walls and rooms to look around, very peaceful and relaxing despite the car park being a few yards away.pay by card parking ,No disabled access,not for wheelchair people ,Quint little cottages in the lane way ,and you can cross the stepping stones to the much bigger Ogmore Castle.

Went to walk the dogs through the dunes onto Merthyr mawr beach. Car park is a gravel car park about 40 minute walk through the dunes to the beach. Car park has 2 electronic pay metres which also use the ring go app. Which are also easy to use. It has one female and one male toilet available for public use, they are a bit gritty, but useable if you bring your own tissues/toilet paper. You can’t use google maps using a post code, but you can just enter candleston car park and it will find it easily enough. You drive through one track lanes to get to it, so please drive carefully, courteously, and respectfully, as you also go through a small village. Plenty of pulling over space to let oncoming cars pass you. Plenty of space for plenty of parking if people don’t be idiots about the width of their vehicles.

Atmospheric but neglected 14th century ruins situated next to the Merthyr Mawr sand dunes and car park. The remains are being slowly reclaimed by nature and there is plenty of evidence of freshly fallen masonry. Shame to see the decline of the ruins over the last decade but still an interesting place to explore.