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Built out of the local creamy-white limestone, the castle keep is 90 ft high and has six semi-hexagonal buttresses which rise above it to form mini-turrets.

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet

This attractive town was the site of a timber castle belonging to the Montfitchet family, from whom it takes its name.

The castle was besieged by the French in 1216, but it held out. The threat of invasion from France and Spain meant that the castle was kept in a good state of repair.

The 'new' castle buildings can be seen on the right. The offices of Royal London Insurance were once J W Evans' The Swansea Milliner; the building is now a Pizza Express.

There was a time when Barnard Castle was one of a number of prosperous towns in the Palatinate; the others were Durham, Darlington, Hartlepool, Stockton, Sedgefield, Staindrop and Wolsingham.

Merthyr Tydfil still has the ruins of a medieval castle. Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Glamorgan built it on land claimed by Humphrey de Bohun, Lord of Breconshire.

Following the burning of Rye in 1377 and of Winchelsea in 1380, Bodiam Castle was built in 1385 because of the imminent threat of invasion by the French.

The site now occupied by this ruined castle was first fortified over 2,000 years ago by the ancient Britons.

Scarborough Castle, on the skyline, once stood 100 ft tall, with walls 12 ft thick; the keep was positioned in such a way so as to command the approach to the causeway leading to the castle.

The development of Castle Bromwich really got under way in the 1930s with the Hodgehill Common housing estate.After the second world war, in which Castle Bromwich played a major part with its Spitfire

It is a pity that the pace of modern life makes so many visitors miss Loughor Castle; its present situation alongside the busy A484 road means that unless one is actively hunting for this fine medieval

The first Norman castle is thought to have been built in Cardiff in c1081 on the site of a previous Welsh fortification.

of cobbled flint and brickwork, was built in the 13th century to defend the northern entrance of this well-preserved town, which was also fortified by earthworks connected to the west side of the castle

It is close to quiet wooded hills, and to Gwyrch Castle, a battlemented mock castle built in the early 19th century.

The partly-restored, moated, 13th-century castle was once one of the regular residences of the Scottish kings.

Situated nine miles east of Rotherham on the A361, the village of Tickhill once had one of the most important castles in the North, built on a motte no less than 75ft high and surrounded by a wet

The first castle on this site is thought to have been built by Robert de Stafford during the 1070s.The timber keep was replaced by one built of stone, and about 1350 the fortress underwent extensive

Castle Gardens were laid out in 1905 on part of the old town.

At the end of the siege, the garrison was accorded the honours of war, and the castle was ordered to be slighted so that cannon could no longer be mounted on its towers.

Just one mile from Weymouth stand the remains of Sandsfoot Castle. Originally the fort comprised a two-storey building with a north tower and a gatehouse.

Here, at the junction of St Mary Street and Castle Street on the right, which leads to the Norman castle ruins, is the Clock Tower of 1897 topped by its timber belfry and weathervane.

This mid 15th-century brick tower, here seen in rural tranquillity with cattle grazing, now sits amid football pitches near Boston College's Rochford Campus.

In the main street of The Borough, and facing on to Castle Street as it runs up to the south side of the castle, this early 17th-century, half-timbered building with its complex pattern of quatrefoils