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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.
The castle of Spontin. www.xplorengo.com/eng/europe/Belgium/namur/spontin.htm
Het kasteel van Spontin. www.xplorengo.com/ned/europa/Belgie/namen/spontin.htm
Bodiam Castle - A 14th-century moated castle close to Robertsbridge, East Sussex, England, protected as a Grade 1 listed building. The castle is quadrangular in shape and has no Keep.
Mont Orgueil is a castle in Jersey. It is located overlooking the harbour of Gorey. It is also called Gorey Castle by English-speakers, and lé Vièr Châté (the Old Castle) by Jèrriais-speakers.
The site had been fortified in the prehistoric period, but the construction of the castle was undertaken following the division of the Duchy of Normandy in 1204. The castle was first mentioned in 1212.
The castle was the primary defense of the Island until the development of gunpowder which then rendered the castle ultimately indefensible from Mont Saint Nicholas, the adjacent hill which overlooks the castle. Mont Orgueil was updated with platforms for artillery constructed in 1548 and 1549 under the direction of Henry Cornish, Lieutenant of the Earl of Hertford in Jersey.
Mont Orgueil was to be superseded by Elizabeth Castle off Saint Helier, the construction of which commenced at the end of 16th century.
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Bodiam castle is situated in the East Sussex countryside, England. It is a 14th century moated castle built in 1385. It is currently in ownership of the National Trust and is freely available to visitors to have a ponder and a mooch around and get married and all that jaz. It is supposedly known as a romantic and majestic castle for some reason or another.
Dromoland Castle is a castle, located near Newmarket-on-Fergus in County Clare, Ireland. It is operated as a 5-star luxury hotel with a golf course, with its restaurant, the Earl of Thomond
Dunnottar Castle is a ruined medieval Scottish fortress located upon a rocky headland on the northeastern coast of Scotland, near Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th and 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been fortified in the Early Middle Ages. Dunnottar has played a prominent role in the history of Scotland through to the 18th-century Jacobite risings because of its strategic location and defensive strength. Wikipedia
It is a ruin now but you can see why it was difficult to attack. We spent some lovely time here and got to see humpback whales playing nearby in the North Sea.
Scotland's answer to Downton Abbey.
This is the home of the Duke of Argyll. However, a fair portion of the castle is open to the public (for a sum).
I spent about 20 minutes trying to get a shot with no tourists at the front. One lady seemed to continually enjoy shuffling into frame just to the right for my first 10-15 attempts. She did smile a lot and I did fleetingly wonder if she was, in fact, the Duke's wife.
However, the gaudy raincoat she was wearing and any-clan-will-do tartan trousers suggested otherwise - oh, and also that she hopped back on a large tourist bus when a huge downpour commenced. The shower passed quickly and I rushed out to get this final shot.
I wanted to do something classic after my first micro castle, & close to the contest base restrictions. Man this model was really hard to photograph with a point & shoot camera >=(
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Caerlaverock Castle is a moated triangular castle first built in the 13th century. It is located on the southern coast of Scotland, 11 kilometres south of Dumfries, on the edge of the Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve.
This site has a free car park and toilet facility.
Leeds Castle - The Loveliest Castle in the World Rising majestically from the still waters of its moat, surrounded by 500 acres of parkland and gardens, Leeds Castle is without a doubt one of the most beautiful venues in Kent.
The present remains of the castle include work from about 1200 to about 1476. Created as a defence against the Welsh, the castle fell to the Welsh several times in the twelfth century. Later in its history, it was unsuccessfully besieged by forces of Owain Glyndŵr in 1403 with assistance from soldiers from France and Brittany who captured Kidwelly town. The castle was relieved by a Norman army after just three weeks. The gatehouse was extensively damaged and it was rebuilt on the instructions of King Henry V. It largely escaped involvement in the English Civil War.
The plan of the castle consists of a square inner bailey defended by four round towers, which overlook a semi-circular outer curtain wall on the landward side, with the massive gatehouse next to the river. The river prevents this from being a truly concentric plan, however a jutting tower protects the riverside walls, and the final plan is very strong.
Plan of Kidwelly Castle
Kidwelly was used as a location for the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, appearing in the very first scene after the titles. After the first view of King Arthur and Patsy, a very misty establishing shot shows Kidwelly as their destination. However, the following close up filming was done at Doune Castle in Scotland.
The castel Eltz was built in the 12th century. You can find it next to Wirschem (Rheinland Pfalz / Germany). There were a lot of tourists, so it wasn't easy to find a great spot for a photo. After a while I found a small hill in front of the castle but there was not way up, so I had to climb a piece of the hill. The view was worth the effort.
Crathes Castle ist eine der zahlreichen schottischen Burgen aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, umgeben mit einem schönen Garten.
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Crathes Castle is a 16th-century castle in the Aberdeenshire region of Scotland, surrounded by a walled garden.
Sunrise at the picturesque Bodiam Castle.
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Bamburgh Castle is a castle on the northeast coast of England, by the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland. It is a Grade I listed building.
The site was originally the location of a Celtic Brittonic fort known as Din Guarie and may have been the capital of the kingdom of Bernicia from its foundation in c. 420 to 547. After passing between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons three times, the fort came under Anglo-Saxon control in 590. The fort was destroyed by Vikings in 993, and the Normans later built a new castle on the site, which forms the core of the present one. After a revolt in 1095 supported by the castle's owner, it became the property of the English monarch.
In the 17th century, financial difficulties led to the castle deteriorating, but it was restored by various owners during the 18th and 19th centuries. It was finally bought by the Victorian era industrialist William Armstrong, who completed its restoration. The castle still belongs to the Armstrong family and is open to the public.
Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, from its position on the Castle Rock. Archaeologists have established human occupation of the rock since at least the Iron Age (2nd century AD), although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until 1633. From the 15th century the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half. As one of the most important strongholds in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle was involved in many historical conflicts from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century to the Jacobite rising of 1745. Research undertaken in 2014 identified 26 sieges in its 1100-year-old history, giving it a claim to having been "the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world"
Bei Dunluce Castle (irisch: Dún Lios (bedeutet "starke Festung")) handelt es sich um eine der größten Ruinen einer mittelalterlichen Burg in Irland. Es befindet sich auf einem Basaltfelsen an der stark zerklüfteten Nordküste der Insel, zwischen den Ortschaften Portballintrae und Portrush im County Antrim in Nordirland.
Die Ursprünge der Burg reichen weit zurück, auf dem Basaltfelsen soll sich gar schon ein vorchristliches Ringfort befunden haben. Dokumentiert ist, dass es im Jahre 1513 in den Händen der Familie McQuillian war. Die Burg wurde oft belagert und im Jahre 1584 von den MacDonnells übernommen. Am 26. Oktober 1588 lief nahe Dunluce Castle ein Schatzschiff der Spanischen Armada auf Grund; dieses wurde geplündert und der Erlös zur Verschönerung der Burg verwendet.
Dunluce Castle (from Irish: Dún Libhse) is a now-ruined medieval castle in Northern Ireland. It is located on the edge of a basalt outcropping in County Antrim (between Portballintrae and Portrush), and is accessible via a bridge connecting it to the mainland. The castle is surrounded by extremely steep drops on either side, which may have been an important factor to the early Christians and Vikings who were drawn to this place where an early Irish fort once stood.
(Wikipedia)
The Johnstown Castle that stands today is the legacy of various owners and their repeated additions to its structure.
The castle was first build in the fifteenth century with the Esmondes - a Norman family who settled in the county in the 1170s - In the 1640's during the bloody Cromwellian period of Irish history the castle and it's grounds were seized and sequester on numerous occasions.
Stable possession finally occurred in 1692 when the property fell into the ownership of John Grogan, whose descendants dwelt at the Johnstown estate for over two-hundred and fifty years.
In 1945 Maurice Victor Lakin presented Johnstown Castle and its estate as a gift to the Irish nation.
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.
Built between 1807 and 1810. The architect was the Anglo-Welsh John Nash. Today the house overlooks Porthluney Cove on the English Channel, but many years ago the view was of a wooded hillside. As the tin mines in the area began to close, the miners needed work so the owner of this house gave many of them a job removing the hill to open up the view to the cove.