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Cardiff Castle and the wooden palisades were replaced by stone walls. The town walls measured 1280 paces or 1.280 miles (2.060 kilometres) in circumference, with an average thickness of between 6 feet (1.8 metres) and 8 feet (2.4 metres) and a height of 10 feet (3.0
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referred to the gate as Miskin Gate. The West Gate was first recorded in 1184, when it was still a timber building. A stone building replaced the timber construction and stood approximately 25 ft (7.6 m) high and 25 feet wide. The gate was demolished after 20 September 1781 according to
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