Answer: Middleham Castle

Building of the present Middleham Castle, in North Yorkshire, was started some time in the late 12th century. Richard entered the household at Middleham at the age of 13, in 1465, and remained there until 1468.

Answer: Kenilworth Castle and Elizabethan Garden

In 1563, Elizabeth I granted Kenilworth to Robert Dudley, who embellished both the castle and its surrounding landscape to impress the queen. She visited four times and her visit in 1575 was the longest she made to any courtier during her reign.

Answer: 1180s

Henry II remodelled the castle in the 1180s. He envisioned the Great Tower as a palace in which to entertain visitors, as well as being an important defensive element.

Answer: The first William de Warenne

Castle Acre Castle was begun in the 1070s by William I de Warenne, who had fought in the Battle of Hastings. Within three generations, the family had created the castle, surrounded the town with ramparts and established its Cluniac priory. 

Answer: A Norman motte-and-bailey castle

Totnes Castle was founded soon after the Norman Conquest to overawe the Saxon town. From the top of the keep are stunning views over Totnes and across to the River Dart.

Answer: Tintagel Castle

A community flourished here in the 5th to 7th centuries and, in the 12th century, Geoffrey of Monmouth named it as the place where King Arthur was conceived. Richard, Earl of Cornwall, subsequently built the castle at Tintagel in the 1230s.

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Ashby de la Zouch Castle

Beeston Castle and Woodland Park

Warkworth Castle and Hermitage

Farleigh Hungerford Castle

Answer: Richmond Castle.

Richmond Castle is the best-preserved example of an early Norman castle in England. Building of the castle started in the late 11th century and it was expanded in the 12th century, when the keep was built.

Answer: Framlingham Castle 

Framlingham is Ed Sheeran's home town. Castle on a Hill was released in January 2017. It has spent 53 weeks in the charts (including five weeks at number two) and has gone triple-platinum. 

Answer: William Cavendish

William Cavendish inherited Bolsover from his father, Charles. He went into exile after fighting for the Royalists during the Civil War but returned in 1660, when he built the cavernous Riding House Range.

Answer: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Old Wardour Castle was used as the setting for the ruin of Locksley Castle, Robin's family home. The castle's advantage for the film-makers was that, depending on the angle from which it is viewed, it appears either intact or ruined.

Answer: Goodrich Castle.

Goodrich Castle, near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, is one of the best-preserved English medieval castles. It is positioned above the River Wye and boasts spectacular views from the battlements. 

Answer: Pevensey Castle.

Pevensey Castle was begun in the 4th century and was one of the last of the Roman Saxon Shore forts. After the Norman Conquest, a Norman castle was built within one corner of the fort. 

Answer: Henry VIII

St Mawes Castle is one of the forts built by Henry VIII between 1539 and 1545 to counter the threat of invasion from the Catholic countries of France and Spain. 

Answer: Old Sarum

An Iron Age hillfort may have been established at the site, in Salisbury in Wiltshire, in about 400BC. It was occupied shortly after the Roman conquest of Britain, which took place in AD43.

Answer: Donkeys

There have been donkeys at Carisbrooke since the 1690s. They are incredibly strong and intelligent animals, which is why donkeys have been used throughout history as a preferred working animal. 

Answer: Thomas, Earl of Lancaster

The castle was built at a time when relations between King Edward II and his most powerful baron, the Earl of Lancaster, had become openly hostile. Lancaster began the fortress in 1313 but failed to reach Dunstanburgh when his rebellion was defeated, and was executed in 1322.

Answer: Henry II

Peveril is one of the earliest Norman fortresses in England and it was the administrative focus of the Royal Forest of the Peak, a royal hunting preserve since the 11th century.

Answer: Her 95th birthday.

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was Lord Warden from 1978 until 2002 and a garden was created at Walmer in honour of her 95th birthday, in 1995, by the leading garden designer Penelope Hobhouse. 

Answer: Cats.

After the defeat of Charles I at the Battle of Rowton Heath, near Chester, in September 1645 there was little point in the Royalists continuing to hold out at Beeston Castle. By this stage the garrison had apparently been forced to eat cats. The victorious Parliamentarians found that 'there was neither meate, Ale nor Beere found in the Castle'.