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It was also during this period that Crawshay had built a home, which became known as Cyfarthfa Castle.

The buildings were erected in 1824, at a cost of £ 30, 000 ( equivalent to £ 2, 104, 964. 72 in 2007 ).

They were solidly and massively built of local stone, and designed by Robert Lugar, the same engineer who had built many bridges and viaducts for the local railways.

It was designed in the form of a " sham " or mock castle, complete with crenellated battlements, towers and turrets, in Norman architecture and Gothic architecture styles, and occupied by William Crawshay II and his family.

It stood, and still does, amid of landscaped parkland, and overlooked the family-owned iron works just across the river.