Property News · June 23, 2012

Let's move to Denbigh, Denbighshire


It’s a pretty market town – a touch parochial, but a pleasant place in which to while away a lifeWhat’s going for it? There are an awful lot of ruins in Denbigh. There’s the castle and old town walls, of course, whose bulk of rubble looms over the town below, which were built by Edward I to subdue the revolting locals. There’s the old Carmelite friary (more pretty rubble), and Leicester’s Church (still more rubble), Robert Dudley’s vain attempt in the 16th century to build a cathedral to rival St Asaph’s. And the vast Victorian hulk of the old North Wales hospital, rubble-less, but spooky enough seemingly to make its living starring in TV penny dreadfuls. In among these domineering ghosts is a pretty market town – a touch parochial, especially compared with its artsy, more cosmopolitan neighbour Ruthin, but a pleasant place in which to while away a life. The Clwydian hills lurk beautifully high above the town, delicious for stirring walks; the sea is just over a dozen miles away; and there’s Gwaenynog Hall, where twentysomething Beatrix Potter used to visit her Uncle Fred in the 1890s. You can still see flopsy bunnies in the blowsy garden.The case against Since the hospital closed, which seemed to employ half the town, a sense of parochialism and inertia is setting in. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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