Raglan Castle | Exploring Monmouthshire Wales

Raglan Castle is a ruined castle which still evokes the magnificence and grandeur from it's hey day.
The castle looms over the A40, one of the trunk-roads connecting the Welsh towns of Abergavenny and Chepstow with the borders of England.
Raglan has a rather checkered history - it started life, in late Medieval times, as a real fortified castle. However, being built during a peaceful period in the English/Welsh border wars, it didn’t see much military action. As a result, it evolved into a breathtakingly beautiful Tudor manor-house.
This is our very first castle explore video and I don't think we could of picked a better castle to explore due the it's majesty. We do hope you enjoy watching.
#wales #castle #monmouthcounty
00:09 Raglan Intro
01:17 Gatehouse Range
02:20 Stone Court
03:00 Great Hall
03:26 Fountain Court
04:16 The Great Tower
05:34 Long Gallery
06:30 Moat walk
07:13 Civil War
08:00 Ending
08:56 Next Castle visit

[@WanderingMonkHikes]

These old castles are amazing. Magnificent construction and filled with history. Thank you for taking us through this. Anna & Alf will be proud.

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Your welcome, yes they do have a lot of history to them. Thanks for viewing and commenting. M&T

[@PinnedonPlaces]

What a fantastic tour, the narration, drone shots, history, scale of the castle and seeing you both enjoy yourselves was EPIC. I fell completely in love with Raglan when we went there a few years ago, hoping to revisit as so much was cut off due to the pandemic, especially the great tower, which when watching it was SO cool seeing Teresa inside the tower, how majestic. Love the way you've filmed, the music and your drone shots. Thank you again for reminding me how incredible Raglan is.

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Yes it is a magical place. Totally worth a re-visit with pandemic cutting off much of your tour. Thanks for you kind commets, we had a blast that day and why wouldn't we when exploring such an incredible place. Take care M&T

[@LetsexploreUKtogether]

Nice place, impressive ruins. But your edit is absolutely brilliant! And music makes a right impression. Great work Mike and Teresa! 🙂

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Thank you, the editiing does take a long time so it's really pleasing when we see comments about it. Take care M&T

[@kevinandange]

Wow. Wales has got some beautiful castle. This one is gorgeous and quite big. We went to the one in Chepstow. Beautiful. Thanks so much for showing us around and sharing the history of this magnificent building..Have a great day 😀 😊 .. Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺 Kevin and Ange 😀

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Thanks yes Wales has some beautiful Castles. Hope to visit more of them soon. M&T

[@ELCO21]

Enjoy your videos. My wife is from leckhampton and I found one of your videos on the cotswold way leckhampton Hill part.

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Fab, so pleased your enjoying our content. Take care M&T

[@alanmoore9346]

One of the best videos I've seen of 'MY' castle :-)

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Wow thank you Alan, really pleased we made one of the best videos of YOUR castle :).

[@alanmoore9346]

@@MikeandTeresaExplore I spent many happy hours as a little one, playing and exploring the castle during the war years as I lived just down the road from the castle. Now living in Australia but always get back to Raglan and the castle when revisiting.

[@wendingourway]

Now that was a great explore! Thanks for sharing too the terminology of various aspects! Going to share with a teacher friend of mine who teaches about Welsh history to high-schoolers. Hope to get to Wales one day myself. Have a great weekend! Bruce and Otis

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Thanks, we really enjoyed visiting and finding all this info out. Do please share with your teacher friend. Hope you get to Wales soon. M&T

[@debsmostexcellentadventure5353]

I love old castles,think i went to about 5 in albania as i do love them so.debs xx

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Thanks for the comment, we’ve some fab Castles in the UK. Do you have any favourites ?

[@debsmostexcellentadventure5353]

@@MikeandTeresaExplore Hever castle,but i love them all,but one the best is leeds.debs xx 🧑‍🎄

[@decoman100]

great video thanks

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@AlanMETALMAN]

Pleased I saw the short as I missed this full video and what an impressive castle Raglan was, you can only imagine what a magnificent sight it was back in its glory days. Lots of history and very well explained and researched as well. A place we have never visited before but if in the area, a must to see I would say, cheers Alan

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Hi Alan, yes it is a fantastic castle without doubt. Hoping to visit more over the years. M&T

[@janetrapoza3877]

Great job 👍

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

thanks M&T

[@GENerationXplorers]

Hey guys 👋 this was superbly put together! Fabulous shots from above with great history information! Finding tunnels and being locked behind bars 😳😂 Loving your leggings Teresa! Fab video! 💃❤

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Oh wow she will so like it that you’d noted the leggings. Thanks for the comments. M&T

[@BackroadExploits]

That was a nice tour of a very beautiful Castle. One can only imagine how magical and grand it would have been decorated. Such fun to see these amazing places, thanks for sharing.

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Your very welcome, yes it would of been great to of seen it the castle at its finest. M&T

[@AliceGoss]

If history had been different there is every chance this castle could have been on parr with Warwick today. Oh for the English Civil War. So much destruction in its wake.

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Hi Alice, yes so very true. It would of been wonderful to see it in it's glory days with the gardens and water features. M&T

[@WBJAdventures]

hello we are from the #wbjadventures and we are subscribing to help your channel, keep up the good work

[@MikeandTeresaExplore]

Thank you Mr Adventures, but not sure if u did subscribe as our numbered haven’t increased.