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    Overseas Visitors Pass Deal Castle
    Deal Castle is one of the finest Tudor artillery castles in England. It is among the earliest and most elaborate of a chain of coastal forts, which also includes Calshot, Camber,Walmer and Pendennis Castles. Most were built 'with all speed, and...
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    Castle Coast Available to Hire
  • Open in WinterOverseas Visitors Pass Dover Castle and the Secret Wartime Tunnels
    Pivotal to the defence of England's shores right into the 20th century, Dover Castle tells the tale of the evolution of a fortress. No fortress in England boasts a longer history than Dover Castle. Commanding the shortest sea crossing between England...
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    Dunstanburgh Castle - Northumberland
    Dunstanburgh Castle
    Dramatic Dunstanburgh Castle was built at a time when relations between King Edward II and his most powerful baron, Earl Thomas of Lancaster, had become openly hostile. Lancaster began the fortress in 1313, and the latest archaeological research carried...
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    Castle
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    Etal Castle - Northumberland
    Etal Castle
    Etal was built in the mid-14th century by Robert Manners as a defence against Scots raiders, in a strategic position by a ford over the River Till. It fell to James IV's invading Scots army in 1513, immediately before their catastrophic defeat at...
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    Castle
  • Open in WinterOverseas Visitors Pass Farleigh Hungerford Castle
    Farleigh Hungerford was begun in the 1370s by Sir Thomas Hungerford, Speaker of the Commons, and extended in the 15th century by his son Walter, Lord Hungerford, Agincourt veteran and distinguished medieval statesman. The remains of their...
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    Castle
  • Overseas Visitors Pass Farnham Castle Keep
    The impressive motte, shellkeep, bailey wall and other defences of a castle founded in 1138 and redeveloped by Henry II after 1155. Long a residence of the wealthy Bishops of Winchester, the fortress itself was abandoned after Civil War service: later...
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    Castle
  • Open in WinterOverseas Visitors Pass Framlingham Castle
    Framlingham is a magnificent example of a late 12th-century castle. Built by Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, the castle, together with Framlingham Mere, was designed both as a stronghold and as a symbol of power and status - as befitted one of the most...
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    Castle
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    Goodrich Castle - Herefordshire
    Goodrich Castle
    Goodrich stands majestically on a wooded hill commanding the passage of the River Wye into the picturesque valley of Symonds Yat. The castle was begun in the late 11th century, by the English thegn Godric who gave it his name. A generation later the...
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    Castle
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    Helmsley Castle - North Yorkshire
    Helmsley Castle
    Surrounded by spectacular banks and ditches, the great medieval castle's impressive ruins stand beside the attractive market town of Helmsley. The fortress was probably begun after 1120 by Walter Espec - 'Walter the Woodpecker'. Renowned for piety as...
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    Castle
  • Hurst Castle - Hampshire
    Hurst Castle
    One of the most advanced of the artillery fortresses built by Henry VIII: used as a prison for eminent 17th-century captives, and later strengthened during the 19th and 20th centuries. It commands the narrow entrance to the Solent.
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    Kenilworth Castle - Warwickshire
    Kenilworth Castle
    Among the largest and most impressive historic sites in England, Kenilworth Castle is a vast complex of ruined fortifications and palatial apartments spanning over five centuries. With English Heritage's re-opening of Leicester's Gatehouse and two...
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    Castle Gardens
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    Kirkham Priory - North Yorkshire
    Kirkham Priory
    The riverside ruins of an Augustinian priory, picturesquely set in the beautiful Derwent valley near the Yorkshire Wolds. Features include a gatehouse bedecked with the heraldry of the De Roos family of Helmsley Castle, and a handsome set of...
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    Ecclesiastical Building
  • Overseas Visitors Pass Launceston Castle
    Set on a large natural mound, Launceston Castle dominates the surrounding landscape. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest, its focus is an unusual keep consisting of a 13th-century round tower built by Richard Earl of Cornwall, inside an earlier...
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    Castle
  • Overseas Visitors Pass Medieval Merchant's House
    John Fortin, a merchant who traded with Bordeaux, started building this house c. 1290. A residence and place of business, it stood on one of the busiest streets in medieval Southampton. Now restored to its mid-14th-century appearance by the removal of...
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    Historic House Coast
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    Middleham Castle - North Yorkshire
    Middleham Castle
    The childhood and favourite home of Richard III, Middleham Castle was a fortress of the mighty Neville family, Earls of Westmoreland and of Warwick. Around the massive 12th-century central keep, they progressively constructed three ranges of luxurious...
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    Castle
  • Norham Castle - Northumberland
    Norham Castle
    Commanding a vital ford over the River Tweed, Norham was one of the strongest of the border castles, and the most often attacked by the Scots. Besieged at least 13 times - once for nearly a year by Robert Bruce - it was called 'the most dangerous and...
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    Castle
  • Overseas Visitors Pass Okehampton Castle
    The remains of the largest castle in Devon, in an outstandingly picturesque setting on a wooded spur above the rushing River Okement. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest as a motte and bailey castle with a stone keep, it was converted into a...
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    Castle
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    Old Sarum - Wiltshire
    Old Sarum
    The great earthwork of Old Sarum stands near Salisbury on the edge of Wiltshire's chalk plains. Its mighty ramparts were raised in about 500 BC by Iron Age peoples, and later occupied by the Romans, the Saxons and, most importantly, the Normans. William...
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    Castle Ecclesiastical Building Prehistoric Site
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    Old Wardour Castle - Wiltshire
    Old Wardour Castle
    Beautifully sited beside a lake, Old Wardour Castle was built in the late 14th century by John Lord Lovel as a lightly fortified but showy and luxurious residence. A hexagonal tower house ranged round a central courtyard, its form is very unusual in...
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    Castle Film or TV Location
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    Orford Castle - Suffolk
    Orford Castle
    The unique polygonal towerkeep of Orford Castle stands beside the pretty town and former port which Henry II also developed here in the 1160s. His aim was to counterbalance the power of turbulent East Anglian barons like Hugh Bigod of Framlingham, and to...
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    Castle Coast
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