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Wollaston is a small market town with a charter granted in 1260 and with the remains of a motte and bailey castle.

Any attacking force attempting to enter the bailey was faced with the prospect of having to run the gauntlet of defending fire from the keep's battlements.

This town developed around the ironworks, which were founded by Crawshay Bailey in 1846.

The old cattle market occupied part of the former bailey of the castle, until 1960 when it moved out to make way for a car park.

To the right, along the curving line of the castle bailey, are S Ball & Sons and the Midland Bank, which has been rebuilt.

Historically, castle baileys were home to many people, and something of that feel is captured in this view of relaxing zoo visitors enjoying sun and ice creams in the mid 1950s.

Oliver Vye's Lane (lower right) runs below the ruined mediaeval towers of the Outer Bailey.

Little remains of Robert de Turbeville's early 12th-century motte and bailey castle.

The hotel bedrooms extend over Woolworth's next door, Richmond's first chain store; it arrived c1935 and moved in 1980 to Bailey House, visible at the bottom of the Market Place.

The Village Sweet Shop and Hailey's have gone, and this very pretty building, which hides a 17th-century timber frame behind its brick skin, is now a restaurant, to which has been added a not very beautiful

The present-day Market Place was formed from the outer bailey of the castle.

Clifford's Tower was built by Henry III; it occupies the site of William the Conqueror's motte and bailey destroyed by the Danes in 1069.

There was a castle here, which was besieged by King Stephen in 1138, but its keep has long gone; only its outline is marked on the grass of its hill at the end of Bailey Street.

His story 'The Fox' was first published in 1923 and is set at Bailey Farm, which Lawrence based on Grimsbury Farm just outside the village.

This is on the Norman motte or mound; the castle had two large baileys or walled enclosures, the north one relatively open still, the south one overwhelmed by Buckler's heavy-handed Victorian work.

Control was quickly established with the erection of one of the earliest motte and bailey castles in England.

The castle was to the south of these cottages; its outer bailey was bisected by the later Castle Lane.

The Town Hall, another gift from Lord Ashton, had opened in 1909; it was designed by E W Mountford, who was the architect of the Old Bailey in London.

But the great keep, the inner bailey and much of the curtain walling were built by Henry II between 1168-86, at the then colossal cost of £3,000.

The road on the left is the old tram road used in the time of Crawshay Bailey.

These are the parapets of the lower bailey looking towards Marten`s Tower, which gets its name from the prisoner it housed in the 17th century.

Any attacking force attempting to enter the bailey would first of all have to run the gauntlet of defending fire from the keep's battlements.

It is named after Crawshay Bailey, who leased it from 1884 and made an agreement with the Abergavenny Improvement Commissioners to 'empark' it.

Henry II's great keep stands high above the mural towers of the inner bailey.