Denbigh sits at the centre of the Vale of Clwyd, within reach of Denbighshire's county town, a UNESCO-listed aqueduct, one of Edward I's other great castles, and the high ridge of the Clwydian Range. Here's where to go next.
A red-sandstone market town with a 13th-century charter, a timber-framed courthouse and a castle now run as a hotel.
Home to the smallest cathedral in the UK, with roots going back to a 6th-century monastic community founded by St Kentigern.
A 19th-century seaside boomtown with two miles of sandy beach, Britain's oldest miniature railway and a saltwater Marine Lake.
A 19th-century estate village built around George Gilbert Scott's Grade II* listed Holy Trinity Church.
Just outside Denbigh, Henllan's parish church is famous for its bell tower, built as a separate structure at the highest point in the churchyard.
A village at the foot of Moel y Gaer hillfort, marking the point where Offa's Dyke Path climbs into the Clwydian Range.
A Vale of Clwyd village whose parish church holds the celebrated 1533 Jesse Window — described as the finest glass in Wales.
A quiet village a few miles from Denbigh, at the centre of a cluster of small medieval parishes in the Vale of Clwyd.
The village that gave Twm o'r Nant his name, and the birthplace of the ship's surgeon who witnessed Captain Cook's death.
Home to St Beuno's healing well and the Jesuit college where poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once studied theology.
At 554m, Moel Famau is the highest point in the Clwydian Range, topped by the ruined Jubilee Tower and reached from a 2,000-acre country park.
A country park built on the site of a former lead-mining leat and Victorian tea gardens, in a dramatic limestone valley on the Alyn.
A 19th-century remodelled castle near the coast, paired with St Margaret's — the 202-foot spire known locally as the Marble Church.
One of Edward I's Iron Ring castles, and the site where the 1284 Statute of Rhuddlan brought Wales under English administration.
A Dee-side market town famous for the record-breaking Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and its International Musical Eisteddfod.