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Urquhart Castle situated on the banks of Loch Ness. The castle was one of Scotlands largest.
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Castle Geyser Temperature 200°F . The large sinter cone is nearly 12 feet high with a diameter of 20 feet at the top. Castle was an irregular geyser, with periods of dormancy, before the 1959 earthquake. Since the earthquake, it has been a regular, easily predictable geyser. The water phase of an eruption lasts about 15 minutes and a steam phase, similar to a steam locomotive, lasting an additional 45 minutes. Subterranean connections exist between Castle and Crested Pool.
Werfen Castle is about an hour out of Salzburg. In the mountains above Werfen are the indoor ice caves...quite a sight and well worth a visit.
A superbly situated castle in West Wales which we visited on our most recent trip to this truly beautiful country.
Another shot from Castle Stalker, this time from a different angle. This is 6 portrait shots stitched together, I tried to keep the castle centre frame with the rock to the left and the lit up mountains to the right.
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Portchester Castle is a medieval castle built within a former Roman fort at Portchester to the east of Fareham in the English county of Hampshire. It is located at the northern end of Portsmouth Harbour.
Alnwick Castle is a castle and stately home in Alnwick in the English county of Northumberland. It is the seat of the Duke of Northumberland, built following the Norman conquest and renovated and remodelled a number of times. It is a Grade I listed building and receives nearly 1 million visitors per year. In 1309 it was bought from Antony Bek the Bishop of Durham by Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy and it has been owned by the Percy family ever since. Construction of the Castle started in 1096.
Waiting for m+b to arrive at Berkhamsted Station I took a quick trip round the dried up moat of Berkhamsted Castle...
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Castle Bridge connecting castle park and Finzels Reach lit up as part of the Bristol festival of light which saw a number of prominent Bristol landmarks illuminated
Taken with a Nikon D7000
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Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, 15 miles (24 km) north of York. It is a private residence, the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years.
Castle Howard is not a true castle, but this term is also used for English country houses erected on the site of a former military castle.
Building of Castle Howard began in 1699 and took over 100 years to complete to a design by Sir John Vanbrugh for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle.
The house is Grade I listed
It is familiar to television and film audiences as the fictional "Brideshead", both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and a two-hour 2008 remake for cinema.
Part of my 'Duffus Castle through the seasons' project.
The castle is situated on the Laich of Moray, a fertile plain that was once the swampy foreshore of Spynie Loch. This was originally a more defensive position than it appears today, long after the loch was drained.
The motte is a huge man-made mound, with steep sides and a wide ditch separating it from the bailey. The whole site is enclosed by a water-filled ditch, which is more a mark of its boundary than it is a serious defensive measure.
Duffus Castle was built by a Flemish man named Freskin, who came to Scotland in the first half of the 1100s. After an uprising by the ‘men of Moray’ against David I in 1130, the king sent Freskin north as a representative of royal authority.
He was given the estate of Duffus, and here he built an earthwork-and-timber castle. Freskin’s son William adopted the title of ‘de Moravia’ – of Moray. By 1200, the family had become the most influential noble family in northern Scotland, giving rise to the earls of Sutherland and Clan Murray.
In about 1270, the castle passed to Sir Reginald Cheyne the Elder, Lord of Inverugie. He probably built the square stone keep on top of the motte, and the curtain wall encircling the bailey. In 1305, the invading King Edward I of England gave him a grant of 200 oaks from the royal forests of Darnaway and Longmorn, which were probably used for the castle’s floors and roofs.
By 1350, the castle had passed to a younger son of the Earl of Sutherland through marriage. It may have been then that the keep was abandoned, possibly because it was beginning to slip down the mound, and a new residence established at the north of the bailey.
Viscount Dundee, leader of the first Jacobite Rising, dined in the castle as a guest of James, Lord Duffus in 1689, prior to his victory against King William II’s government forces at Killiecrankie. Soon after, Lord Duffus moved to the nearby Duffus House. The castle quickly fell into decay.
The splendour falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying:
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
O love, they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Princess: A Medley: The splendour falls on castle walls".
The Bobolice Castle – a royal castle in the Polish Jura (The Kraków-Częstochowa Upland), in the village of Bobolice. The castle in Bobolice was built by King Casimir III the Great in the middle of the 14th century, probably in place of an earlier wooden structure. The castle was a part of the defence system of royal strongholds protecting the western border of Poland on the side of Silesia.The beginning of the decline of the castle dates back to 1587, when it was heavily devastated during the invasion of Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria, a rival of Sigismund III Vasa to the Polish throne. The castle was reconstructed by the then owners, the Krezowie family, but in 1657, during the Deluge, it was plundered and totally ruined by Swedish troops. Now the castle belongs to the Lasecki family, who decided to rebuild it in 1999. The shape of the castle was reconstructed on the basis of preserved ruins with using only traditional materials (mainly limestone). The official opening of the castle after twelve years of work took place on 3 September 2011.
Zamek Bobolice – zamek królewski na Jurze Krakowsko-Częstochowskiej, w systemie tzw. Orlich Gniazd, we wsi Bobolice. Królewski zamek Bobolice został zbudowany przez króla Polski Kazimierza Wielkiego najprawdopodobniej ok. 1350-1352 roku. Należał do systemu obronnego zachodniej granicy państwowej Królestwa Polskiego. Zamek miał bronić od najazdów ze strony Śląska, będącego terytorium granicznym Królestwa Czech. Podczas najazdu Maksymiliana III Habsburga na ziemie polskie w 1587r. zamek został zdobyty przez jego wojska. Uległ on wówczas poważniejszym uszkodzeniom, jednak po wojnach szwedzkich w XVII i XVIII w. zamek zaczął popadać w ruinę. Pod koniec XX w., rodzina Laseckich – obecnych właścicieli zamku – podjęła wyzwanie uratowania tego zabytku przed całkowitą zagładą. Kształt zamku odtworzono na podstawie zachowanych ruin, posiłkując się wiedzą historyków i archeologów. W pracach wykorzystywano wyłącznie tradycyjne materiały (głównie kamień wapienny), opracowano też specjalną zaprawę murarską. Oficjalne otwarcie zamku po dwunastu latach prac nastąpiło 3 września 2011r.
Our last stop before returning to Edinbught for our final night was Doune Castle.
Though I worked mostly with IR here, I managed to make a few images with a 'normal' camera ;-)
Light was very low and posed some challenge including dynamic range and I had to stomp on these files fairly heavily.
Barra Castle is an unusual L-plan tower house, dating from the early 16th century, about two miles south of Oldmeldrum, above the Lochter Burn, in the parish of Bourtie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
It occupies the site of the battle in which Robert Bruce defeated John Comyn, Earl of Buchan.
Sony a7rii + Canon 70-200 f4L
A well-preserved late medieval castle on a tidal island in Loch Moidart on the west coast of Scotland.
It is a really great geyser, but the competition is tough in the Upper Geyser Basin. On this day I saw 11 geyser eruptions, all in the Upper Basin. It is easier to do because they are in walking distance, but they are quite a distance apart. The only thing I did this day was chase geyser eruptions.
Craigmillar Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is three miles (4.8 km) south-east of the city centre, on a low hill to the south of the modern suburb of Craigmillar. The Preston family of Craigmillar, the local feudal barons, began building the castle in the late 14th century and building works continued through the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1660 the castle was sold to Sir John Gilmour, Lord President of the Court of Session, who made further alterations. The Gilmours left Craigmillar in the 18th century, and the castle fell into ruin. It is now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument.
Craigmillar Castle is best known for its association with Mary, Queen of Scots. Following an illness after the birth of her son, the future James VI, Mary arrived at Craigmillar on 20 November 1566 to convalesce. Before she left on 7 December 1566, a pact known as the "Craigmillar Bond" was made, with or without her knowledge, to dispose of her husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.
This amazing castle was the last Royalist stronghold in the south west. It held out against the Parliamentarian forces (Roundheads) until betrayed by one of the officers. Lady Mary Bankes had held Corfe against two sieges but had to surrender when enemy troops had been allowed inside by her officer Colonel Pitman.
The Roundheads then spent some time using vast quantities of gunpowder trying to destroy it!
They allowed Lady Mary Bankes to go to her home at Kingston Lacey and was given the keys of the castle which can still be seen at Kingston Lacey.
Alnwick Castle is the seat of The 12th Duke of Northumberland, built following the Norman conquest and renovated and remodelled a number of times. It is a Grade I listed building and as of 2012 received over 800,000 visitors per year when combined with adjacent attraction The Alnwick Garden.
Scenes from the Harry Potter films were shot here.
Nuremberg Castle, or Kaiserburg, is one of the most important castles in the history of the German Empire. Between 1050 and 1571 all the German and Holy Roman Emperors lived there at various times. Nuremberg Castle was built in stages on a sandstone hill on the north side of Nurembergs's old city and there are actually three parts to the castle: the Kaiserburg (Emperor's Castle) in the west and complete in itself, the Burggrafenveste (Count's Castle) in the middle and also the oldest part, and the Stadtburg (part belonging to the Imperial City) on the eastern side. It reached its massive present size and length of 220 meters in three stages of construction between the 11th and the 15th centuries
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Castle Tioram, a ruined castle that sits on the tidal island Eilean Tioram in Loch Moidart, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland.
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Wilson Castle
Proctor, VT
October 9, 2021
"The castle’s construction began in 1885, as instructed by Doctor & Lady Johnson. Doctor Johnson was a Vermonter who went to England to study medicine. While there he met & married a wealthy lady of the aristocracy. After 7 and a half years of planning and construction the castle was completed at the sum of $1,300,000. The Johnson’s remained in the castle for only a brief time.
From the 1880’s until 1939, the castle was bought & sold numerous times. In 1939, a radio engineer named Herbert Lee Wilson, came to Vermont. He was a pioneer in the AM radio field and built radio stations all over the world. He was looking for a new location to build another station and a summer home for his family. He purchased the estate and the history of Wilson’s Castle officially starts. In the early 1940’s, Col. Wilson was noted for his engineering and radio work in Vermont. He designed radio station WHWB, owned by the Wilson’s and Charles Bates through the Central Vermont Broadcasting Corporation. Other radio work included WSYB in Rutland, Vermont which had the first directional antenna in the state of Vermont. Col. Wilson also provided engineering on WCAX channel 3 television station in Burlington, Vermont.
When America joined WWII in 1941, Herbert Wilson joined the Army Signal Corps, from which he retired in the 1950’s as rank of Colonel. He retired to the castle, and in 1962, opened it for tours. He passed away in 1981 at the age of 82 and left the estate to his daughter, Blossom Wilson Davine Ladabouche. Blossom passed away in 2010 and currently her daughter Denise Davine is the owner/operator."
Castle Acre Priory was a Cluniac priory in the village of Castle Acre, Norfolk, England, dedicated to St Mary, St Peter, and St Paul. It is thought to have been founded in 1089 by William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey (the son of the 1st Earl of Surrey who had founded England's first Cluniac priory at Lewes in 1077). The order originated from Burgundy. Originally the priory was sited within the walls of Castle Acre Castle, but this proved too small and inconvenient for the monks; hence, the priory was relocated to the present site in the castle grounds about one year later.
The priory was dissolved in 1537, and its ruins are in the care of English Heritage, along with the nearby Castle Acre Bailey Gate and Castle Acre Castle.
Duffus Castle, near Elgin, Moray, Scotland, was a motte-and-bailey castle and was in use from c.1140 to 1705. During its occupation it underwent many alterations. The most fundamental was the destruction of the original wooden structure and its replacement with one of stone. At the time of its establishment, it was one of the most secure fortifications in Scotland. At the death of the 2nd Lord Duffus in 1705, the castle had become totally unsuitable as a dwelling and so was abandoned.
Castle Stalker is a picturesque castle built on a tidal islet in Loch Laich, an inlet of Loch Linnhe in Argyll, the Scottish Highlands, not far from Oban. It can only be reached by boat but its scenic setting makes it a very romantic location.
Re-opened to the public in the July of 1996 after twenty years of extensive excavation and restoration, Laugharne castle stands on a low ridge overlooking the wide Taf river estuary and perhaps is today better known for its associations with the poet Dylan Thomas instead of its picturesque location. One of a string of fortresses controlling the ancient road of communication along the South Wales coast line, the castle as a long and chequered history. It was originated as a Norman earth and timber stronghold, mentioned in about 1116 as the castle of Robert Courtemain, (but the first record of the Norman castle is dated 1189), rebuilt in stone during the 13th and 14th centuries by the various successive generations of the de Brian family. Great parts of their works still survive, including the domed round keep tower and the protuding mighty gatehouse of the inner bailey constructed in a warm red-brown sandstone.