Croeso i dref Dinbych, one of the most strategically important towns in north-east Wales.
The castle began to be built by Henry de Lacy in 1282 after the conquest of the area by Edward I but there had been a fortress here since the Iron Age. Edward I took Dinbych from Dafydd ap Gruffudd who had a stronghold here at the time.
After the burning of the town in the War of the Roses (1455 – 1489), much of the town’s activity moved from the higher castle area down to the market. This market has been a centre for trade in north-east Wales for centuries.
Pwll y Grawys (the Lenten Pool) was originally a pool used to breed fish to be eaten at Lent.
By the eighteenth century the pool had been filled in and the town moved into the Pwll y Grawys area. Popeth Cymraeg – Denbigh’s centre for Welsh Learners stands on Pwll y Grawys today.
Neuadd y Farchnad (the market hall) was built by Robert Dudley who died in 1588.
Tros y Parc is a seventeenth century house with design features from the 1920s. It was originally built for Ffowc Salusbury who became Warden of Denbigh in 1702.
Tŷ Thomas Gee, as it is now called, is an eighteenth century building. Thomas Gee himself moved in in 1835.
Bryn y Parc is really a collection of houses from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Following a fire they are being restored.
Tŷ Brombil was designed and built in 2005 by local architect, Chris Sanders. It cost £200,000 to build and blends in perfectly with its older surroundings.
