Traveling To An Enchanted Land Of Castles: Facts And Information On The Castles Of Britain
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Traveling To An Enchanted Land Of Castles, Learn About The Many Castles In Britain.
Allington Castle, Ashby Castle, Barnard Castle, Barnwell Castle, Bedford Castle, Beeston Castle, Berkeley Castle, Berkhamsted Castle, Berry Pomeroy Castle, Brancepeth Castle, Buckden Palace, Caister Castle, Canterbury Castle, Carisbrooke Castle, Carlisle Castle, Castle Rising, Chester Castle, Christchurch Castle and much, much more.....
Herbert Howard
Herbert writes books about faraway, exciting places. He is addicted to travel and finds any excuse to pack his bags and leave on another adventure.
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Traveling To An Enchanted Land Of Castles - Herbert Howard
Traveling To An Enchanted Land Of Castles - Facts And Information On The Castles Of Britain
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Famous British Castles
Allington Castle
Ashby Castle
Bamburgh Castle
Barnard Castle
Barnwell Castle
Bedford Castle
Beeston Castle
Berkeley Castle
Berkhamsted Castle
Berry Pomeroy Castle
Brancepeth Castle
Buckden Palace
Caernarfon Castle
Caister Castle
Canterbury Castle
Carisbrooke Castle
Carlisle Castle
Castle Rising
Chester Castle
Christchurch Castle
Cockermouth Castle
Colchester Castle
Compton Castle
Cooling Castle
Corfe Castle
Dartmouth Castle
Deal Castle
Donnington Castle
Dover Castle
Durham Castle
Eilean Donan Castle
Exeter Castle
Goodrich Castle
Haddon Hall
Hedingham Castle
Hereford Castle
Hertford Castle
Hever Castle
Hurst Castle
Kirby Muxloe Castle
Lancaster Castle
Launceston Castle
Leeds Castle
Leicester Castle
Lincoln Castle
Lumley Castle
Lydford Castle
Naworth Castle
Norwich Castle
Palace Of Westminster
Pendennis Castle
Penshurst Place
Peveril Castle
Portchester Castle
Portsmouth Town Defences
Raby Castle
Restormel Castle
Rochester Castle
Saltwood Castle
Sherborne Old Castle
Southampton Castle
St. Mawes Castle
St. Briavels Castle
Stirling Castle
Sudeley Castle
Tattershall Castle
Thornbury Castle
Tintagel Castle
Tiverton Castle
Tonbridge Castle
Tower of London
Trematon Castle
Upnor Castle
Wallingford Castle
Walmar Castle
Warwick Castle
Wigmore Castle
Windsor Castle
Wingfield Manor
Wolvesey Castle
Famous British Castles
Tintagel Castle
It is most famous for its association with the legendary King Arthur.
Lancaster Castle
This is an original fort built by the Romans
Rochester Castle
It was one of the first castles in England to be built entirely from stone.
Lincoln Castle
It was begun by William the Conqueror and was built on top of an old fort site built by the Romans.
Windsor Castle
The largest inhabited castle in the world.
Stokesay Castle
It is located at Stokesay and it is the oldest fortified manor house in England and dates back to the 12th century.
Tower of London
This is the oldest of English castles and its cruel bloody history dates back almost one thousand years.
Allington Castle
Location
Allington Castle stands beside the River Medway about a mile north of Maidstone. This beautiful, motted castle seems perfect, but the perfection has been contrived in modern times.
Castle Today
Allington Castle is a Grade I listed building. Much of the stonework was laid in an intricate herringbone pattern, which is still visible today.
It was the birthplace in 1503 of the English lyrical poet Sir Thomas Wyatt and in 1521 of his son the rebel leader Thomas Wyatt.
In 1951 the castle became home to a convent of the Order of Carmelites. It is currently the private residence of the psephologist Sir Robert Worcester and Lady Worcester. It is not open to the public.
History Of Castle
Henry II destroyed a Norman castle after the revolt of 1173-74. The low mound immediately southwest of the present castle represents the motte and some herringbone masonry is visible in the curtain facing it. Other than that, Sir Stephen de Penchester, Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports built the existing structure. He obtained license to crenellate in 1291 and the original survives.
His castle is characteristic of the Edwardian age but is not uncompromisingly military like the contemporary castles of Wales. In design, it reflects the quadrangular layout that was becoming popular, but the rear bows outwards in a gentle curve and the distribution of towers is quite irregular.
Five D-shaped towers of different sizes project from the curtain, though one or two others existed originally. Solomon's Tower, at the south corner, is the largest and may be regarded as an early tower house. There is also a gatehouse flanked by simple, half-round turrets; the machicolations above the gateway are modern.
Some ruins of barbican survive on the far side of the moat. The range on the southwest side of the courtyard, known as the Penchester Wing, may incorporate a slightly older manor house. However, once the castle was built, the main apartments stood opposite, cantered on a hall that still exists but is largely a reconstruction. Only its fifteenth century porch is authentic.
In 1492, Allington was granted to Sir Henry Wyatt in recognition of his loyalty to Henry VII. He upgraded the castle by building the narrow range, which divides the courtyard into two unequal parts. Its upper floor forms a long gallery. The picturesque, half-timbered house within the smaller enclosure also dates from the Wyatt period.
Ashby Castle
Location
Ashby Castle is situated in Leicestershire.
Castle Today
Visitors can still climb the tower today despite it suffering massive damage during the Civil War. There is also an underground passage from the kitchen to the tower, probably created during this war, which can still be explored today.
History Of Castle
Ashby-de-ka-Zouche takes its name from the Zouche family whose line died out in 1399. In 1464, Ashby was one of the estates granted to William, Lord Hastings, as a reward for his services to Edward IV. Hastings held the office of Lord Chamberlain and, in 1474; he obtained a license to crenellate his houses at Ashby and Kirby Muxloe.
During the Civil War, Henry Hastings strengthened the castle with earthen redoubts and turned it into the chief center of Royalist resistance in the county. The garrison endured over a year of siege before surrendering on honorable terms in February 1646. The Hastings Tower was slighted by order of Parliament, but the rest of the castle remained habitable into the eighteenth century. It is now all ruined.
Before Lord Hastings, there was only a manor house here, though it was a fine one in keeping with the status of the Zouches. Hastings made the older buildings the core of his mansion. They form a range cantered upon a late Norman hall, flanked by the solar and a buttery and pantry wing. In the fourteenth century, the massive kitchen was added to the complex. Lord Hastings modernized these buildings and extended the range with the addition of a fine chapel in the prevailing Perpendicular style.
Following the license to Crenellate, he built a curtain around the manor house and raised the mighty square tower, which is named after him. The curtain cannot have been a very formidable obstacle - only a portion survives-but the Hastings Tower is still impressive. It is one of the best examples of a late medieval tower house, providing its owner with a dignified but secure residence. It stands detached from the manorial buildings, facing them across the courtyard. The tower is built in very fine ashlars masonry.
Bamburgh Castle
Bamburgh Castle; is located by the seaside village of Bamburgh in Northumberland. It is perched on a basalt crag and this grand castle towers over the village and surrounding countryside and may be seen for many miles out to sea.
Haunted
Bamburgh Castle also has a 'Pink Lady' who haunts the castle. She was a Princess who wanted to marry her true love who was beneath her station.
Her father sent her lover overseas and after a period of time she became very depressed.
In an effort to cheer her up her father had a beautiful pink dress made for her but when it was completed she put on the garment and climbed on to the highest battlements and threw herself to her death on the rocks below.
The princess is said to return to the Castle every seven years in her pink dress. She wanders throughout the Castle and then makes her way down the rocky path to the beach to await her lover to return.
Castle Today
Today Bamburgh Castle is one of the finest, and most photographed, castles in England, commanding stunning views of the Farne and Holy islands and landward to the Cheviot hills.
As well as being a popular tourist attraction it is licensed to conduct civil weddings.
It was bought by, the 1st Lord Armstrong in 1894. Bamburgh Castle is still owned and maintained by the Armstrong family.
History Of Castle
Archaeologists have found evidence to suggest that the rocky crag on which Bamburgh castle is built has been occupied since prehistoric times.
Bamburgh Castle was almost entirely rebuilt