Prestatyn

Prestatyn is a seaside resort in Denbighshire in North Wales. In 2001, the city had 18.496 inhabitants.

History

The center of the 12th century developed around the erected at the behest of King Henry II castle, which was built in 1157 by Robert de Banastre. It consisted of a wooden Motte with about 20 meters in diameter and a stone courtyard. From about 1160 Robert de Crevecoeur served as lord of the castle, because Banastre was drawn with the Normans to Lancashire. Ten years after its construction, in 1167, the castle was finally dragged from the Welsh prince Owain Gwynedd. 1297 were still some remains of walls of the castle courtyard visible. These are today, however, no longer exists, so that hardly anything suggesting that in Prestatyn once a castle has stood.

Geography and climate

Prestatyn is surrounded by the Clwyd - border country to England in close proximity to Rhyl and Towyn. To the west of the Snowdonia National Park, with its up to 1,000 meters high mountains.

The average annual rainfall is lower than in the rest of Wales, as the clouds rain down from the Atlantic at West Wind already over the mountains of Snowdonia, before they reach Prestatyn. The amount of snow in the winter is so relatively low.

In Prestatyn in 1946 with just under 22 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature measured today in November in the United Kingdom.

Tourism

Prestatyn is a resort particularly British family favorite, as it is located on the Irish Sea and has relatively wide sandy beaches.

The city is located at the northern end of the hiking trail Offa 's Dyke Path. It is also where the Offa 's Dyke Path Centre, an information center on the trail, its history and the eponymous Offa 's Dyke is a from the 8th century by King Offa of Mercia mound.

Pictures

The beach at Prestatyn