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Kingsgate Castle was rebuilt in the mid 1800s by Lord Holland. It was a private house for a while, and then became a hotel run by the North Foreland Hotels Ltd.

A sandstone quarry above the village is the source of the stone for Scarborough Castle.

Raglan was the last castle to hold out against Parliament in 1646. On his restoration, Charles II rewarded the Pembroke family by raising it from an earldom to a marquessate.

The 125- foot high keep of the Norman Castle and the tower of the Cathedral dominate this view of the crowded anchorage on a bend of the river, en route to its union with the Thames off Garrison point

In this view from the top of St Mary's tower, the castle ruins can be seen in the centre background.

Some sources suggest that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas a Becket, fled here after a confrontation with King Henry II at Northampton Castle.

In 1771 it was replaced by the present infirmary in Castle Street.

Cyfarthfa Castle was built in 1825 for the Crawshay family, the ironmasters; then it was bought by the Merthyr Tydfil Corporation in 1909 for £19,700.

Hedingham's dominant feature, the enormous castle keep, looms behind these cottages just to the right, out of picture. Bones were recently unearthed in a garden at Pye Corner.

Pictured from outside Hornby's Anglican church is the Castle Hotel. During the 18th century, the village was a halt for stage coaches travelling between Lancaster and Kirkby Lonsdale.

Children paddle in the shallow waters or investigate the rock pools, whilst others dig castles from the soft sand.

The blockhouse on the shore to the right was the castle from where a chain was stretched across the river for protection in times of war.

It is not difficult to see why the grassy inner ward of this formidable castle became one of the picnic destinations of Rudolf Hess.

To get just the contour he wanted, Frith got himself into the Belfast Waterworks and captured the hilltop, the aristocratic castle and an expanding suburb.

It is not difficult to see why the grassy inner ward of this formidable castle became one of the picnic destinations of Rudolf Hess.

The castle had two main towers and a further tower guarding the entrance on the north side.There was no keep. Kentish Ragstone was brought across the River Thames for the construction.

Tylers Green was the centre of a major medieval tile-making industry whose decorated floor tiles were used at Windsor Castle in the 14th century and for paving numerous Chiltern churches.

Storms are frequent along the coast, but these buildings are protected from the worst by Castle Point, from which this view was taken.

Nearby is the garage selling Cleveland petrol, and a child sits on the wall of Castle Green.

Broughton is probably best known for its moated manor house, Broughton Castle, built in 1300 for Sir John de Broughton.

It is now famous for its race horses and historic castle, once the home of Richard, Duke of York and later King Richard III.

In 1836 Bishop van Mildbert exercised one of his few remaining powers as a Prince-Bishop by turning over the castle to the university.

Down the lane to the left, on the other side of the castle green, is Northgate and Doomsdale, the prison which included among its inmates the Catholic martyr St Cuthbert Mayne, the Quaker George Fox, and

This photograph was taken before Bodiam's restoration by Lord Curzon, who bequeathed the castle to the nation in 1925.