Castle Leisure is a privately owned company in existence since the mid-19th century and has been based in the same Cardiff office since 1856. Operating a number of leisure ventures down the years, they now own a chain of purpose-built

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clubs.

Castle Bingo

Castle Leisure has eight purpose-built bingo clubs in the area of South Wales and three others located in Barnes Hill Birmingham, Bootle Liverpool and Corby, Northamptonshire. The company built the first ever purpose-built bingo hall in the UK, the Canton Castle, reopened on 26 May 2016 following extensive renovation work after a fire struck the building in July 2015.{{cite web, url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-33713974, title=BBC Wales News - Castle Bingo hall fire in Cardiff was 'accidental', publisher=bbc.co.uk, date=July 2015 They company's bingo roots started with small traditional clubs in South Wales including Abercynon, Kenfighill, Porth, Ebbw Vale and Pontypridd. The last of the traditional bingo clubs was Pontypridd. In 2006 the company built their Nantgarw club which quickly become a flagship club for the company, serving the local community. In early 2011 Castle Leisure expanded its South Wales Enterprise into England purchasing a further Three Bingo Halls and transforming them to resemble the look and layout of the previous eight. The newly purchased clubs are situated at Barnes Hill, Birmingham, Bootle, Liverpool and Corby, Northamptonshire. They have two clubs in

Cardiff Cardiff (; ) is the capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of in and forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area officially known as the City and County of Ca ...

, the others are in

Bridgend Bridgend (; or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in the Bridgend County Borough of Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. The town is named after the Old Bridge, Bridgend, medieval bridge over the River Og ...

Merthyr Tydfil Merthyr Tydfil () is the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, Wales, administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council. It is about north of Cardiff. Often called just Merthyr, it is said to be named after Tydfil, daughter of K ...

Nantgarw Nantgarw is a village in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, near Cardiff. From an electoral and administrative perspective Nantgarw falls within the ward of Taff's Well, a village some south, but historically fell within the bounda ...

Neath Neath (; ) is a market town and Community (Wales), community situated in the Neath Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot County Borough, Wales. The town had a population of 50,658 in 2011. The community of the parish of Neath had a population of 19,2 ...

, Uskway

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and

Corby Corby is a town and civil parish in the North Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England, northeast of Northampton. In 2021 it had a population of 68,164. From 1974 to 2021, it was the administrative headquarters of the Borough of ...

. The Uskway club in Newport, Nantgarw and Neath Clubs seat in excess of 1,000 people.

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