This market town and railway junction in the Vale of Clwyd, 12 miles S. of Rhyl, is famous as an angling centre. The rivers Clwyd and Elwy offer good sport. On the hill dominating the town stand the ruins of Denbigh Castle, one of Edward I's strongholds. Still standing are two walls, the outer being the walls of the old town. The castle had several towered gateways, of which one, the Burgesses Tower, is the best preserved. After the death of Llewellyn, his brother David held a conference of the Welsh chiefs in Denbigh Castle and decided to continue resistance. David was killed soon after. Down the ages the castle belonged to many noble families, and at one time was the property of Robert Dudley, Ist Earl of Leicester. During the civil war Denbigh was the last of the Welsh castles to fall to the Parliamentarians. After the defeat of Rowton Moor (see CHESTER) it harboured King Charles for a few days before his flight north. To the SW. of Denbigh, in the dingle of Dolhyfryd, and near Gwaenynog, there is a memorial commemorating Dr. Johnson's tour to Wales in 1774, set up by his friend and host, Middleton. The memorial, however, an inscribed urn, tasted too much of mortality to the good doctor, who thought it “an intention to bury me alive. Let him think, for the present, of some more acceptable memorial.”