Conisbrough, The Castle From The River 1895
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The castle is set on a knoll overlooking the River Don. Built out of the local creamy-white limestone, the keep is 90 ft high and has six semi-hexagonal buttresses, which rise above it to form mini-turrets. When Sir Walter Scott visited Conisbrough, he was so impressed with the tiny chapel set into one of the buttresses that he included it in his novel 'Ivanhoe'.

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A Selection of Memories from Conisbrough

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Conisbrough

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I remember going to visit my grandparents and being carried around the lock and talking to the bargees with my grandad.