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RUTHIN CASTLE HOTEL

Denbighshire, Wales

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Ruthin Castle Hotel - Grey Lady

Ruthin Castle Hotel is located in the town, Denbighshire, north Wales. The construction of Ruthin castle started around 1277, under the orders of Edward I, who is notable for waging wars in both Wales and Scotland. The castle would have been a strategic advantage to quell uprising in Wales, and originally consisted of five round towers, of which only three remain, along with its ruined gatehouse. The castle previously formed part of the Crown Estate until sold by Charles I in 1632 and sits in its ancient walled dry moat within acres of private landscaped gardens, parkland and woods alongside the River Clwyd.

During the English Civil War period the castle was attacked by Oliver Cromwell's troops but managed to hold out against the siege. In 1646 the castle was once again attacked and besieged, the royalist forces surrendered to Major General Mytton in the same year. Ruthin castle was then destroyed, possibly on the orders of parliament.

The castle ruins were incorporated in a large castellated mansion which took the name of the Ruthin Castle. Today the mansion is a luxury hotel, and all the old castle ruins are in the hotel grounds. Medieval banquets are held nightly, except Sundays, in the hotel, and the ruins may be inspected by permission of the hotel management. The ruins include the battlements, the whipping pit, drowning pit and the dungeons.

The castle's most famous ghost is known as the Grey Lady as she is dressed from head to foot in grey. The most popular of these stories is that she was the wife of the second in command at the castle when it was a fortress inhabited by the armies of Edward I. The Grey Lady discovered that her powerful husband was having an affair with a local woman, in a jealous rage she murdered her husband's lover with an axe.

When the terrible act was discovered, the Grey Lady was sentenced to death. No local clergymen would allow her to be buried on consecrated ground. Because she could not be buried in a church in consecrated grounds it was decided that she be buried just outside the Castle walls, her grave is still evident .

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