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Totternhow Knolls is the name given to the remains of Totternhoe Castle, a Norman motte and bailey built over Saxon remains.

The castle was on a hill north of the church, comprising a motte and bailey with earth and timber fortifications.

Possibly originally a prehistoric fort, it is a motte and bailey earthwork. Totternhoe was the last Bedfordshire parish to be enclosed in 1891.

Halfway along the castle, Henry II's shell keep on the Norman Motte or mound divides the two baileys, the right-hand one filled with the massive Victorian rebuild.

The church stands outside the castle bailey. The tower is 101 feet high, and was built c1454-79.

Devizes Castle was originally a Norman motte and bailey fortification, but was rebuilt in 1120, possibly by Bishop Osmund of Salisbury. It then fell into ruin.

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.

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

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

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.

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

To the right, along the curving line of the castle bailey, are S Ball & Sons and the Midland Bank, which has been rebuilt. The Pharmacy in the distance has lost its parapet and urns.

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.

The others are Bailey, Bull Hill, Portmore, Sandy Down, Walhampton, and Boldre itself.

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. Henry and his son Richard I transformed Dover into one of the greatest fortresses of the kingdom.

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. The photograph does not quite capture the Bridge End Inn on the extreme right.

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.

Only a 75 ft high fragment and some stretches of bailey wall remain on this refreshingly unmanicured site.