page_title: Gwrych Castle
section_title: Visitor attraction
hierarchical_section_title: Gwrych Castle / Visitor attraction
caption_attribution_description: English: The gardens were based upon Queen Eleanor’s garden at Conwy Castle and were created by Lloyd Hesketh Bamford Hesketh in the 1830s. They have been restored by the Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust in 2014.
context_page_description: Gwrych Castle is a Grade I listed 19th-century country house near Abergele in Conwy County Borough, Wales. The castle and estate are privately owned.
context_section_description: Gwrych Castle became known as "The Showpiece of Wales" and attracted many visitors. It was also used as a training venue for the English World Middleweight boxing champion Randolph Turpin in the early 1950s. 
  In the early 1960s it was an occasional venue for the famous motorcycle Dragon Rally and in the 1970s it was used as a centre for medieval re-enactments, attracting tourists with such events as jousting and banquets.
caption: The restored formal gardens at Gwrych Castle. Built in the 1830s they were based on Queen Eleanor's garden at Conwy Castle
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