The Gardens
The Castle is set within magnificent parkland and includes a formal garden which is open to the Castle's day visitors.
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Aviary and Wall, Bodelwyddan Castle |
The second baronet, Sir John Hay Williams (1794 - 1859) was a very keen horticulturalist who brought many of the more exotic plants to the gardens at Bodelwyddan. One of his more innovative ideas was to build a 'centrally heated' garden wall - a high brick wall built with fireplaces and flues to keep frost at bay - and this wall can still be seen around the garden. He also built a number of hot houses which sadly fell into disrepair many years ago.
After the Williams family left the Castle in the 1890s a number of tenants took residence and it was one of these, Mr Aitken, who commissioned the landscape architect T H Mawson to redesigned part of the walled garden in 1910.
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In the 1980s the gardens were restored by Clwyd County Council and are now cared for by staff at Bodelwyddan Castle Hotel.
