Caldicot Castle is serenely set in a beautiful fifty-five acre country park. The site dominates the area around it and is strategically located as Caldicot stood on the Via Julia roadway to Caerwent, a Roman town. The ruins of the town are still visible just to the North. The castle is also at a crossing point of two nearby rivers, the River Neder and the River Severn.

The Normans founded the site and built a motte and bailey with a deep ditch as early as 1086. The present castle was built over a couple hundred years with the keep built in 1221. The curtain wall was added in the thirteenth century and Caldicot’s finest feature, the Great Gatehouse was built in the fourteenth century. There is also a smaller fourteenth gatehouse known as Woodstock Tower, which was named after Thomas Woodstock, the sheriff of Gloucester and keeper of the castle under the King.

The castle has a romantic and colorful history. You can visit the castle, explore the medieval towers and enjoy the views from the battlements.