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On the right of the road the Castle Inn is still selling beer; the post office (nearer the camera), run for many years by the late Mr Rickard, Senior, a great enthusiast of watermills and windmills, now

On the right of the road the Castle Inn is still selling beer; the post office (nearer the camera), run for many years by the late Mr Rickard, Senior, a great enthusiast of watermills and windmills, now

Midway between the ancient sites of two Norman motte and bailey castles at the extreme ends of the village, Holy Trinity Church is the topographical as well as the spiritual centre of Ascott; old

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Herbert family prospered in their family home at Raglan Castle. Three members of the family are buried in this chapel in three magnificent alabaster tombs.

Situated on the edge of the Cherhill Downs, just below the earthworks known as Oldbury Castle, this is the second oldest of the Wiltshire white horses.

Following his murder at Berkeley Castle in 1327, the King's body was refused burial at a number of places before being accepted by the monks of Gloucester.

Lead from the roof was stripped (to be re-used at Raglan and Chepstow castles), and the ivy-clad ruins were later to become a focus for the romantic travellers of the 18th and 19th centuries.

It was after the rebellion against Henry I by his elder brother Robert Curthose that the decision was taken to build a castle proper.

This was the port of destination or call for such lines as Union Castle, North German Lloyd and American Lines.

Newport has a rich history, with Roman occupation at Caerleon, a medieval castle, and the Chartist Rising of 1839, which was put down by troops.

Sandbanks The Haven Hotel 46102 Standing on the slim, sandy peninsula jutting out from Poole Head, and facing the castle on Brownsea Island, this isolated hotel must have lived up to its

Apart from the castle, this is the highest part of Clitheroe, 300ft above sea level.

Babies' Castle, a nursery home for infants, was opened here in 1886 by Dr?Barnardo.

1140, the same year that the building of the church commenced, King Stephen bestowed the earldom of Cornwall on Reginald de Dunstanville, a natural son of Henry I, and granted him Berkhamsted Castle

On the top of the gatehouse there would once have been a hourd, or wooden gallery, from which the castle's archers could command the ground on the approach to the gate.

This main building, which stands close to the Castle site and the early 15th-century Magazine Gateway, was designed by local architects Everard and Pick (later Pick, Everard, Keay and Gimson) around

Coity Castle stands less than two miles to the north-east of Bridgend. There is a legend of how Payn de Turberville acquired Coity following the Norman conquest of Glamorgan.

Since the building of the two castles in the reign of Henry VIII, prevention of smuggling in the coastal waters of the Island had been under the direction of the Customs.

Today, we know these as the site of Carlisle Castle and, across the narrow valley, Stanwix Bank.

The village was built on the land of William the Conqueror, who gave part of it in 1086 to Count Alan of Brittany (fifteen years earlier he had built Richmond Castle).

These medieval arches and walls survive because they were incorporated into the Grammar (Martin Andrew) The castle's medieval motte became a prospect mound with a garden room on top in the 19th

The forty-five mile route takes the visitor through historic villages and on to Lancaster Castle via the Trough of Bowland.

The present memorial, a Balmoral red granite column erected in 1912, supersedes a large stone (known as the 'Martyr Stone') which has since been taken to Dale Castle.

For years Croftlands lay empty; then in 1928 it was bought by Colonel Walter Musgrave Hoyle, whose wife was the youngest daughter of Colonel Foster of Hornby Castle.