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Caerphilly county borough has a history spanning thousands of years. Caerphilly Castle, one of the great Medieval Castles of Western Europe dominates the town centre of Caerphilly

Building began in 1268 and throughout the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century, Caerphilly Castle was the focus of Welsh attacks. In 1316 Llywelyn Bren a noble of Senghenydd, raised an army of ten thousand men and attacked the Castle. The attackers failed to breach its defences, although much of the town of Caerphilly was destroyed. By the mid-fourteenth century relative calm had fallen upon Caerphilly and parts of the Castle were probably abandoned.

In the late eighteenth century the Marquees of Bute acquired Caerphilly Castle and restoration began in the late nineteenth century, under the direction of the immensely wealthy third Marquees of Bute.