´óÏó´«Ã½

Take the path alongside the Coach House Inn and walk down the slope on the northern side of the town. Barnard's Tower sits a little way down the ridge. It is one of several defensive towers located around the walls at strategic points like the corners or junctions of walls, and has been sympathetically restored.

The town walls are well defined and maintained on this northern flank. Your walk takes you along the Mill Pond, formerly a tidal river and one of three stretches of water that helped defend the town.

Across the Mill Pond is a building that is now an old people's home. It was originally the infamous Golden Prison where French prisoners were held after the abortive landings at - the last time that mainland Britain was ever invaded. Twenty-five of the prisoners persuaded two local Welsh girls to help them and, using bones from the food brought in by the girls, dug a tunnel under the prison walls. They escaped and made their way to the quay where they commandeered Lord Cawdor's yacht and sailed away to France and freedom.

Your walk finishes where it began, on the Mill Bridge with the remains of the castle standing tall and proud in front of you.

If you're looking to find out more about Welsh history then take a look at our section , written especially for our site by historian John Davies.