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They were tried, with others, at Lancaster Castle. Ten people were hanged in August 1612. Demdike died in prison.

This 7-foot-tall inscribed stone is shown here on the B3269 road - it was moved here from Castle Dore, but has since been moved nearer the town. It is reputed to be of the 6th century.

This side of the castle was defended by a moat; there was once a drawbridge where the steps and stone bridge appear in this picture.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

One was Castle House, whose owner, Joseph Moore, was licensee of The Old Bell and mayor of Malmesbury in 1894 and in 1909.

Castle Road leads to the Square. The chimney stack in the distance is that of Cookley Iron Works. The Red Lion public house (right) opened after 1830, along with the Eagle and Spur Inn.

To the left is Winter Lane with the 17th-century Castle Acre on the corner, built in stone with stone roof slates.

Down by the beck is the 17th-century corn mill, once owned by the Neville family of Middleham Castle. The mill closed in 1930 and lay derelict until 1977.

Following the sale of the mansion in 1934 parts of it were demolished, then during the Second World War it hosted, with Lowther Castle, a secret CDL Tank project.

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Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Later, Bourne became a market town with a (now largely vanished) castle and a Norman priory founded in 1138, now the parish church.

B;aise Castle was built as a folly by Thomas Farr, Master of the Society of Merchant Venturers.

The site occupied by Castell Dinas Bran may have been fortified as early as the 8th century.

Walton Castle stands to the north-east of Clevedon in the middle of what is now a golf course.

Beyond the bridge are the castle and the estate, and two churches, one the Roman Catholic church where John Lingard preached.

An ancient settlement, Castle Hill near the church of St Wilfrid is the site of both Saxon and Roman fortifications.

Two castles, one in ruins, the other inhabited, can be discovered just inland, high in the Mulgrave woods. The railway viaduct dominated the village from 1883 until its demolition in 1958.

In 1348 the original timber castle was replaced in stone by Ralph Stafford, a successful soldier and friend of Edward III - he later became Earl of Stafford.

This impressive and forbidding-looking castle stands to the south of Stonehaven on a rocky headland overlooking the North Sea.

In the early 1720s Bishop Wilson was held prisoner in Castle Rushen for nine weeks for failing to pay a fine. In 1722 an ecclesiastical court found a certain Lady Horne guilty of slander.

When hunting in this area, Edward called at the castle. His stepmother brought him a cup of wine and, as he drank, one of her servants stabbed the king in the back.

Dating from c1730, it was originally a beer house, the Sign of the Castle.