Landimore Castle

(aka Bovehill Castle)
Landimore, Gower Peninsula, Swansea, south Wales
SS 464933

Photographs copyright © 1996 by Jeffrey L. Thomas

Sir Hugh Jonys, who was knighted at Jerusalem in 1440, became the Knight Marshall of England. He was granted the manor by John, Duke of Norfolk, Lord of Gower, is said to have had a fortified manor house here, but the thinly walled ruined domestic ranges set on a shelf above the Landimore marshes are of the time of Sir Rhys ap Thomas or a still later owner. The ruins, much overgrown and difficult to find are located on what today is called "Bovehill Farm."

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