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Castle Varrich and Ben Loyal from the Kyle of Tongue at sunset.
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Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, 15 miles north of York. It is a private residence, and has been the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years. Wikipedia
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Falkborg castle is located at the edge of the Whispering Woods, a magical forest that draws all kinds of adventures for its hidden secrets.
Also check out the movie on youtube:
Please watch until the end, I had too much fun making it.
Raby Castle dates from the 14th century, when Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, gave John de Neville a licence to fortify the property at Raby. The noble family of Neville (one of the two main powerful houses in the north of England at the time, along with House Percy) were staunch Catholics, and lived at Raby Castle up until 1569. Charles Neville, the 5th Earl of Westmorland, was the leader of the Rising of the North, a plot to overthrow the protestant Queen Elizabeth I. The north of England generally wanted Mary Queen of Scots to take the throne. It is said that 700 knights gathered at Raby Castle in 1569 and marched to York. The plans fell apart and Raby Castle was confiscated by the crown. A short time later, it was bought by Henry Vane the Elder, and the Vane family and their descendants have lived in the castle since.
Krzyżtopór is a castle located in the village of Ujazd, Iwaniska commune, Opatów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It was originally built by a Polish nobleman and Voivode of Sandomierz, Krzysztof Ossoliński (1587–1645). The castle was partially destroyed during the Swedish invasion known as The Deluge in 1655, and then reduced to ruin during the war of the Bar Confederation by the Russians in 1770.
Caerlaverock Castle is one of Scotland’s great medieval fortresses. For 400 years it stood on the very edge of the kingdom. To the south, across the Solway Firth, lay England. For most of its history, Caerlaverock played an important role in the defence of the realm.
Long before the castle was built, the Romans built a fort on the summit of Ward Law Hill, overlooking the castle from the north. By about 950, the British lords of ‘Karlauerock’ (the name may mean ’fort of the skylark’) had built a fort on the site. Around 1220, Alexander II of Scotland, needing trusted men to secure the Scottish West March, granted the estate to his chamberlain, Sir John de Maccuswell (Maxwell). Sir John built the ‘old’ castle. Within 50 years, his nephew, Sir Herbert, had moved to a new castle just 200m away to the north. There the Maxwell lords remained for the next 400 years.
Hohenschwangau Castle or Schloss Hohenschwangau (lit: Upper Swan County Palace) is a 19th-century palace, the childhood residence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Originally built in 12th century, it was ruined by Napoleon. Ludwigs's father, King Maximilian II, rebuilt it in 1830. The castle was used by the royal family as a summer hunting lodge until 1912. The Wittelsbach family (which ruled Bavaria for nearly 7 centuries) still owns the place.
The castle stands on a limestone bluff overlooking the Carew inlet — a part of the tidal estuary that makes up Milford Haven. The site must have been recognised as strategically useful from the earliest times, and recent excavations in the outer ward have discovered multiple defensive walls of an Iron Age fort.
The Norman castle has its origins in a stone keep built by Gerald de Windsor around the year 1100. Gerald was made castellan of Pembroke Castle by Arnulf of Montgomery in the first Norman invasion of Pembrokeshire. He married Nest, princess of Deheubarth around 1095. Nest brought the manor of Carew as part of her dowry, and Gerald cleared the existing fort to build his own castle on Norman lines. The original outer walls were timber, and only the keep was of stone. This still exists in the later structure as the "Old Tower".
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Arms of Carew
Gerald's son William took the name "de Carew", and in the middle of the 12th century created an enclosure with stone walls incorporating the original keep, and a "Great Hall" inside it. The current high-walled structure with a complex of rooms and halls around the circumference was created by Nicholas de Carew around 1270, concurrent with (and influenced by) the construction of the Edwardian castles in North Wales. At this time, the outer ward was also walled in.
Tudor period
Domestic Tudor-period ranges from the north west
The de Carews fell on hard times in the post-Black Death period and mortgaged the castle. It fell into the hands of Rhys ap Thomas, who made his fortune by strategically changing sides and backing Henry Tudor just before the battle of Bosworth.
Rewarded with lands and a knighthood, he extended the castle with luxurious apartments with many Tudor features in the late 15th century. An inner doorway is decorated with three coats of arms: those of Henry VII, his son Arthur and Arthur's wife Catherine of Aragon. This allegiance turned sour. Rhys' grandson Rhys ap Gruffudd fell out of favour and was executed by Henry VIII for treason in 1531. The castle thus reverted to the crown and was leased to various tenants. In 1558 it was acquired by Sir John Perrot, a Lord Deputy of Ireland, who completed the final substantial modifications of the castle. The Elizabethan plutocrat reconstructed the north walls to build a long range of domestic rooms.
Demise
Perrot subsequently fell out of favour and died imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1592. The castle reverted to the crown and was finally re-purchased by the de Carew family in 1607. In the Civil War, the castle was refortified by Royalists although south Pembrokeshire was strongly Parliamentarian. After changing hands three times, the south wall was pulled down to render the castle indefensible to Royalists. At the Restoration the castle was returned to the de Carews, who continued to occupy the eastern wing until 1686.
The castle was then abandoned and allowed to decay. Much of the structure was looted for building stone and for lime burning. Since 1984 Cadw has funded a substantial amount of restoration performed by the Pembrokeshire National Park Authority
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This is the remains of the once magnificent marble staircase at Gwrych Castle - you can see how it looked originally here:
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I have had an interest in the castle since childhood back in the late 1980s and watched its terrible decline into complete dereliction in the 1990s with great sadness, even to the extent of writing a letter to the local paper asking the council to consider a compulsory purchase of the site (which they politely declined to do).
It's fantastic that the Castle's Preservation Trust (of which I am a member) is now vigorously engaged in restoring this magnificent building:
One thing I never thought I would see in my life is the castle appearing on national tv every night on ITV's top rated 'I'm A Celebrity' show! The £300,000 fee received from ITV will make a tremendous difference in speeding up renovation plans, I'm sure.
You can see my full 160+ photo tour of the Castle here:
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Colchester Castle is the largest Norman Keep in Europe. It was constructed on the foundations of the Temple of Claudius, built when Colchester was the first Roman capital of Britain.
The Castle is one of England's most important heritage sites and one of the most popular visitor attractions in the East of England. The Museum showcases archaeological collections of international quality covering 2,000 years of history, including some of the most important Roman finds in Britain.
Birr Castle (Irish: Caisleán Bhiorra) is a large castle in the town of Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. It is the home of the seventh Earl of Rosse, and as such the residential areas of the castle are not open to the public, though the grounds and gardens of the demesne are publicly accessible and a must visit if you ever wonder around Ireland.
Castle Hill Lighthouse marks the entrance to the Narragansett Bay in Newport, Rhode Island. Completed in 1890 the lighthouse was built into the cliff face. The light is built out of granite and stands thirty-four feet tall. This is a copyrighted photo. If you wish to purchase this photo or any other of my fine art prints, please visit my website at; jerryfornarotto.artistwebsites.com/
Stokesay Castle in Shropshire is a classic example of doing a lot with a little. It's a small site but they made the most of it. It is also a rare survivor - a fortified manor house dating from the 13th century.
Living near the contested Welsh borders was dangerous in the Middle Ages and Stokesay reflects this concern. The land was granted to Roger of Lacy after the Norman Conquest, later it was tenanted by Theoderic De Say and 'South Stoke' became 'Stokesay'. In 1240 the site passed into the hands of John De Verdon and it is possible that he started building on the site before going on crusade in 1270.
The Verdon's tenant John De Grey sold the site to merchant Lawrence of Ludlow in 1281 for the price of a juvenile sparrow hawk. Lawrence was a wealthy wool merchant who even lent money to the king and many of the Marcher lords like the Earl of Arundel and the Mortimers. Lawrence is thus one of the earliest wealthy merchants to take his money and invest in land, setting himself up as a country gentleman.
It is assumed that Lawrence built most of what we see as the work is mostly of one date and he obtained the necessary 'licence to crenellate' from King Edward I at Hereford 10 years later in 1291. This licence allowed the addition of battlements to the walls and may indicate that building work had now reached battlement level. Lawrence headed a wool fleet to the Low Countries in 1294 and was drowned when his ship was wrecked off Aldeburgh. His body was buried in Ludlow.
On the death of his son in 1316 the manor was 200 acres, including two mills, a dovecote and a wood and generated income from rents. The Ludlow family retained Stokesay and the last heiress Anne Ludlow married Thomas Vernon who died at Stokesay in 1563. The new gatehouse (see photos) was probably built in the 1640s by tenant Charles Baldwin who'd taken the site as a retirement home.
It suffered a brief siege in the English Civil War but surrendered. Normally surrendered castles were 'slighted' but at Stokesay only the perimeter wall was demolished. It was later used as farm buildings before the site's architectural significance was realised.
As presented today Stokesay has a single bailey or courtyard surrounded by a substantial dry moat. The 17th century half-timbered gatehouse is colourful and opens into the courtyard where visitors see the three-storied South Tower of circa 1291 which functioned as a keep or final retreat in the event of attack. The South Tower had its own drawbridge (now removed) at first-floor level to cut it off from the rest of the building in the case of attack.
The North Tower has a handsome half-timbered apartment added to the top while between the two is the great hall and solar block. The hall is lofty amd the internal staircase inside leading to the North Tower is timber and original medieval woodwork. The cruck roof timbers are also orginal, dating to around 1300.
The solar block would originally have been the lord's private apartments and these were panelled in the 17th century to make them warmer and more comfortable. Some of the panelling is Flemish or Flemish-inspired and contains grotesque figures.
Stokesay is a stunning building and is now in the care of English Heritage. The grounds and lower floors have reasonably good disability access but wheelchair users have to bump over a wooden bar at the gatehouse to gain access to the courtyard.
The castle was designed by Wawrzyniec Senes, built 1621-1644 and had a really bad luck. The owner Krzysztof Ossoliński died just one year after the building was completed and his only son got killed in 1649. The castle was partially destroyed by the Swedish army in 1655 and since then it was falling into ruin.
This was one the "must have" shots from our visit to this castle built by Robert Dunsmuir.
The interior was the most splendid of all the Victorian mansions I have ever toured. Sadly, Mr. Dunsmuir never got to see his vision of his castle completed as he died a year before it was completed.
Every room of this mansion is chocked full of Victorian furniture and is a great tour stop while visiting Victoria, British Columbia.
Hidden deep in the mountainous Realm of Mayacamas is a castle where, it is rumored, a magical elixir is concocted from the fermented nectar of the local grapes.
This photo was taken by a Minolta Autocord Seikosha-MX (Chiyoko) TLR medium format film camera and Chiyoko Rokkor 1:3.5 & 1:3.2 f=75mm lenses and HOYA HMC 49mm Y[K2] filter + adapter using Kodak 100TMX film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered using Photoshop.
Another view of Dunluce Castle, from the inside this time.
HDR from 3 handheld exposures - I seem to recall steadying the camera against one of the stone walls. Tonemapped in Photomatix.
Kilchurn Castle was built in about 1450 by Sir Colin Campbell, first Lord of Glenorchy, and it started life as a five storey tower house with a courtyard defended by an outer wall. By about 1500 an additional range and a hall had been added to the south side of the castle. Further buildings went up during the 1500s and 1600s.
Much of the 1690s was spent converting Kilchurn Castle into a modern barracks capable of housing 200 troops. This saw the addition of a three storey L-shaped block along the north side of the castle.
The Castle was used as a Government garrison during the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite Rebellions: but the family's efforts to sell it to the Government were unsuccessful. They left in 1740 and moved to Taymouth Castle in eastern Scotland, to spend their time developing their Perthshire estates. In 1760 the castle was badly damaged by lightning and was completely abandoned. It is now in the care of Historic Scotland.
Possibly the most spectacular feature found within the castle is the top of a tower struck by lightning in 1760, blown completely off its base by the lightning strike. The top of the tower landed in one piece, upside-down in the castle courtyard.
Explore: 208 on Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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The castle is an integral part of the town's history that spans some 800 years
To all who visit and view, and – especially – express support and satisfaction: you are much appreciated!
Das Babenhäuser Schloss wurde gegen 1200 unter den Herren von Hagen-Münzenberg gegründet, diente die Anlage als administratives und militärisches Zentrum für die Dörfer um die entstehende Stadt Babenhausen
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Album – Babenhausen, Hesse, Germany – 2018SEP07-08:
Mother went this time last year to Babenhausen to visit the Blachniks, whom our family has known 58 years, and we were planning for her to go over again stand-by on the flight I was working this weekend. It began to fill and I was unable to swap trips: if my scheduled flight had no empty passenger seats, I could not carry my mother over the ocean on that day, so Joe agreed to accompany her the day before and I would work the next day to Frankfurt, then ride the crew bus to Mainz, take the train to Babenhausen, visit Mother and the Blachniks, and pick Joe up. He and I would take the train to Mainz, and he would ride back with me while I worked the flight to Charlotte.
And we did! So Mother is in Babenhausen, Joe & I in Charlotte. Next we need her return trip back to the States.
As my vacation is starting, I plan to fly back stand-by, see the Blachniks, Mother, and maybe her host family in Babenhausen a few days while I stay at a hotel, then take Mother by train to Mainz she wants to see, and fly stand-by again; after landing in Charlotte she will overnight with her sister Marie Robinson in Gastonia, to break up the drive back to her home in Brevard.
Hope you enjoy this 37% of our 184 Babenhausen captures!
Castle Stalker was possibly an early 14th century Fortalice, founded by the MacDougalls, lords of Lorn. Standing on a small island at the mouth of Loch Laich, in the mid 15th century the stone rectangular tower house, was founded by Sir John Stewart, lord of Lorn. Of three storeys and a garret, to the south and east are the fragmentary remains of the barmkin. There are two entrances and both are protected by machicolations at parapet level, the ground floor entrance in the south-east wall, leads to a barrel-vaulted basement of three cellars. Rising to the full height of the building, the turnpike stair in the north angle is crowned by a rectangular caphouse. The first floor entrance in the north-east wall leads to the hall and was originally reached by a timbered stair before the stone forestair was constructed. In 1631 Donald Campbell of Ardnamurchan remodelled the tower, which was garrisoned by Hanovarian troops in 1745. By 1840 the roofless the castle had been abandoned but from 1965-75 Lt. Col. D. R. Stewart Allward, renovated and restored the tower back into a dwelling house.
Castle Stalker at Portnacroish, looking towards Lismore and Mull at sunset.
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Castle Stalker – in the Gaelic, Stalcaire, meaning Hunter or Falconer – is believed originally to have been the site of a Fortalice (a small fortified building) belonging to the MacDougalls when they were Lords of Lorn, and built around 1320. The MacDougalls lost their title after their defeat by King Bruce at Brander Pass in 1308 but regained it for a period after 1328. In about 1388 the Lordship of Lorn passed to the Stewarts, the lands including Castle Stalker.
It is believed that Castle Stalker, much in its present form, was built by the then Lord of Lorn, Sir John Stewart, who had an illegitimate son in 1446, and it is reasonable to suppose that he built and occupied the Castle about that time. In 1463 Sir John Stewart was keen to legitimise his son by getting married to his Mother, a MacLaren, at Dunstaffnage when he was murdered outside the church by Alan MacCoul, a renegade MacDougall, although he survived long enough to complete the marriage and legitimise his son, Dugald, who became the First Chief of Appin. The Stewarts had their revenge on MacCoul at the Battle of Stalc in 1468 opposite the Castle when the Stewarts and MacLaren together defeated the MacDougalls, and Alan MacCoul was killed by Dugald himself. The site of this Battle is marked by a memorial stone in the Churchyard in Portnacroish.
In 1497 the Stewarts and MacLarens carried out a combined raid against MacDonald of Keppoch as a reprisal for cattle reiving, but Dugald Stewart was killed and succeeded as Chief of Appin by his son Duncan. King James IV of Scotland, born in 1473, was a cousin of the Stewarts of Appin and when he came of age made frequent hunting journeys to the Highlands. It is understood that he stayed quite often at Castle Stalker, using it as a base for hunting and hawking for which he had a passion. It is thought that further improvements were made to the Castle at this time including the possible addition of what is now the top floor and roof, and that the Coat of Arms over the front door may be the Royal Arms of that time.
Duncan Stewart was murdered by the McLeans at Duart Castle in 1512 and succeeded by his younger brother Alan Stewart as the third Chief. In 1513 the Stewarts of Appin supported King James IV at the Battle of Flodden. The Stewart Chief and is five sons were all present at the Battle but all managed to survive what was otherwise a massive defeat in which the King was killed.
In 1520 Sir Alexander Stewart of Invernahyle was fishing off the small island next to Castle Stalker when he was surprised and murdered by a party of Campbells. Tradition has it that the nurse of his baby son, Donald Stewart, hid the baby in the Castle and when the Campbells left the nurse returned, found the baby still alive and took refuge in Morven.
Young Donald became renowned for his strength and was known as “Donald of the Hammers” – in the Gaelic “Donald nan Ord” – as he could wield a blacksmith’s hammer in each hand with ease. In 1544 he raised the Stewarts of Appin and went to Dunstaffnage where they killed nine Campbells in revenge for the murder of his Father. Donald nan Ord also led the Stewarts at the Battle of Pinkie on the 10th September 1547. He died in 1607 and is buried on Lismore where his faithful henchman, a Carmichael, also lies buried.
In around 1620 the Castle passed into the hands of the Campbells of Airds as a result of a drunken wager by the 7th Stewart Chief, Duncan, in exchange for an eight-oared wherry.
The Stewarts of Appin, under Stewart if Ardsheal, regained the Castle in 1689 when they came out with King James VII (otherwise James II) against King William but after defeat at the battle of Dunkeld the Castle was again forfeited to the Campbells. The Stewarts under Ardsheal refused to hand it over when it was then besieged by the Campbells for several months until Ardsheal was granted an honourable surrender in 1690.
At the time of the 1745 Rising Castle Stalker was held by the Campbells with a Garrison of about 59 Government troops. Although the Stewarts of Appin were solidly behind Prince Charles, and raised a regiment of 300, the Castle was too strong for them to take and their 2lb cannon-balls merely bounced off the walls. The Castle formed an important link during the rising with ships calling frequently with men and supplies as they sailed between Inverary in the South and Fort William in the North. After the Battle of Culloden in 1746 the Castle was used by the Government forces as a local centre where the Clansmen had to surrender their arms. Six prisoners are recorded as being held in the Prisoners’ Hole for about a fortnight before being taken to Edinburgh for trial.
The last Campbell was born in the Castle in 1775 and Campbells continued to reside in it until about 1800 when they built a new house on the mainland at Airds, which still exists today, and the Castle remained merely as a storehouse. In about 1840 the roof either fell in or was perhaps removed to avoid roof-tax and the Castle was abandoned.
In 1908 the Castle was regained from the Campbells by Charles Stewart of Achara who purchased it and carried out some basic preservation work to stem its decay.
In 1947 his successor, Duncan Stewart, who was Governor of Sarawak, was murdered by a Dyak and the Castle devolved on his widow. In 1965 Lt. Col. D. R. Stewart Allward negotiated terms for the purchase of the Castle and spent the next ten years rebuilding and restoring it as it is today. It is now fully habitable. Contractors and builders in the normal sense were not employed in the restoration which was carried out by Lt. Col. Stewart Allward personally with the help of his wife, family and many friends who were willing to spend holidays and long weekends helping with the task.
Lt. Col. Stewart Allward died suddenly whilst out walking on the 5th February 1991. His wife Marion, always of great support to him, died on the 7th July 2005. They are survived by their four children, Sine, Ross, Alasdair and Morag, six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
In the early 1900s, the wealthy Kansas City businessman Robert Snyder purchased 5,000 acres that included a spring-fed lake.
He selected a site on the rocky summit above for his retirement home, saying, “I will fish and loaf and explore the caves of these hills, with no fear of intrusion.”
But just as imported Scottish stone masons began work on his dream, Snyder died in 1906 in one of the state’s first automobile fatalities. His sons finished the home, but it was gutted by fire in 1942. The carriage house burned the same day and, in 1976, the water tower was burned by vandals.
Caernarfon Castle, Wales - is a medieval fortress in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, north-west Wales cared for by Cadw, the Welsh Government's historic environment service. There was a motte-and-bailey castle in the town of Caernarfon from the late 11th century until 1283 when King Edward I of England began replacing it with the current stone structure. The Edwardian town and castle acted as the administrative centre of north Wales and as a result the defences were built on a grand scale. (This is a scan from an image taken in 2000)