Saltwood Castle is part ruined and part restored and sits upon a hill above the old Clinque Port of Huthe.
Henry de Essex, Constable of England and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, is credited with the construction of the castle, at least in its stone form, at some point during the Anarchy.
The inner [...]
Lancaster Castle and its distinguished neighbor, the priory church, crown the summit of a hill overlooking the River Lune.
A Roman fort occupied the site.
Following the arrival of the Normans, Lancaster became part of the vast estate granted to Roger de Poitou and the first castle is very likely to have been [...]
Tattershall Castle posses one of the most splendid of later medieval tower houses.
It has justly been described as the finest piece of medieval brickwork in England.
Ralph, Lord Cromwell, erected this tower in the years 1434046.
Rising over a hundred feet to the top of its corner turrets, with a view stretching [...]
The historic town of Wallingford lies within an earth rampart first thrown up in the reign of Alfred the Great or Edward the Elder, as a precaution against Danish attack.
Wallingford was once believed to be a Roman town because the rampart encloses a rectangular area and the streets follow a grid pattern.
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The Tower of London and Dover Castle were the strongest castles of medieval England.
There are those who would put Dover first and London second, but this is a matter of preference.
Both castle retain their majesty in spite of extensive later mutilation.
It must be admitted that Dover makes the most of [...]
Pendennis Castle crowns a headland a mile east of Falmouth.
The name suggests a Dark Age hillfort but any remains are buried beneath the later rampart.
What now stands is an Elizabethan artillery fortress surrounding one of Henry VIII’s coastal forts.
Erected in 1540-45, when the Reformation had made England a [...]
Chester originated as the Roman legionary fortress of Deva.
Stone defenses first rose around AD 100 and for the next three centuries it housed the Twentieth Legion.
When the Roman occupation came to an end the site appears to have been deterred, but the Danes took refuge one winter behind the old walls [...]
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 [...]
Goodrich Castle is the most splendid in the county of Herefordshire and one of the best examples of English military architecture.
It is still impressive despite its ruinous state.
The castle is perched on a rocky spur above the River Wye, four miles southwest of Ross-on-Wye.
Godric’s Castle - no doubt named after Godric [...]
According to tradition, Richard de Redvers, Earl of Devon, first raised a castle here around 1106, but if so nothing remains of it.
Hugh Courtenay built the present stronghold soon after 1300, and the quadrangular plan is very typical of that era but would be unlikely in a Norman castle.
We may compare [...]
