Castell Brogyntyn is a univallate 'hill fort', supposedly of the Iron Age, and scheduled accordingly as an ancient monument.
It is, however, decidedly symmetrical, and was likely rescarped, perhaps in the 1760s. The very flat interior is understood to have been home, in that period, to a bowling green.
A stone-lined tunnel, about 70 yards long, passes underneath the 'castle', curved such that one cannot see from one end to the other.
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I went for tea when I was 7 with the family of one of the estate workers. They lived in a red brick terraced cottage on the estate. After tea we, the children went out on "an adventure". I thought I had imagined it all! we went over a fence then through the tunnel, along the lake and past the cottage. At that time(1962/3) it was all in dense woodland. It was magical. So glad it was real!
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