Castle Coch Golf Course

Castle Coch Golf Course takes its name and its setting from the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival castle above Tongwynlais, on the northern edge of Cardiff where the city gives way to the wooded slopes of the Taff valley. The red-sandstone castle, rebuilt for the Marquess of Bute in the 1870s, is one of the more recognisable landmarks in this part of Glamorgan and draws visitors independently of the golf course beside it. The CF15 postcode sits just off the A470, the main road linking Cardiff to the Brecon Beacons, making the course a convenient stop for golfers travelling between the city and the valleys to the north. Its position on the fringe of Cardiff, rather than deep in the valleys, gives it a different character from many of the courses further up the Taff and Rhondda valleys.