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     7 years ago (edited)

    Thank you... It's not a castle I'm afraid. Its the Jubilee tower on the top of Moel Famau which was destroyed in a storm in the 1860's

    The tower, which was built to commemorate the golden jubilee of George III in 1810, was designed by Thomas Harrison of Chester. It was designed like an Egyptian obelisk with three tiers. Although the foundation stone was laid in 1810 by George Kenyon, 2nd Baron Kenyon, the tower was never completed due to a lack of funds. In 1862, a major storm brought down the incomplete tower. The remaining upper part of the structure was demolished for safety reasons leaving just the base. Most of the rubble was removed from the site; smaller stonework was reused by local farmers for dry stone walls.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moel_Famau#Jubilee_Tower

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       7 years ago 

      Very interesting. But what is a Jubilee tower? What is a obelisk?

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         7 years ago 

        Jubilee is what it is called. Jubilee meaning is:

        A jubilee is a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, or 70th anniversary. Of biblical origins, the term is often now used to denote the celebrations associated with the reign of a monarch after a milestone number of years have passed.

        An obelisk is a stone building particularly in a square or rectangle formation which ends with a pyramid shape on top.

        is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.

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