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The only action the castle ever saw was in 1216, when it was occupied by the French at the invitation of the barons rebelling against King John. COMPTON, Loseley

Just up river from the bridge and the castle, this would appear to be a view from Wintour`s Leap of the beginning of the great Horseshoe Bend which encompasses the peninsula of Lancaut.

With its Roman remains and castle, Colchester has much to support its claim to be Britain's oldest recorded town.

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

Here we see the castle after its restoration by the Marquis of Bute. The main residential block, including the great hall, was sited along the south side of the inner curtain wall.

This great citadel was erected by Edward I of England between 1285 and 1322 as one of a chain of castles by which he kept a secure footing in Wales.

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 castle is set on a knoll overlooking the River Don.

The imposing Chapel Royal at Dublin Castle. It was completed in 1814 by Francis Johnson, and is situated in the Lower Yard, on the site of an earlier, smaller, chapel.

Sir Robert Lumley was granted licences to crenellate in 1389 and 1392, making Lumley, along with Raby, County Durham's two late 14th-century castles.

Overlooking the Clyde to the north of the present town of Bothwell, the castle is still an impressive sight despite being a ruin.

A large number of country houses, many of which were called castles by their owners, have either been demolished or are shadows of their former selves.

This view is from beside the Ice House, its balcony covered in creeper, looking back down Castle Hill.

Centre left is Castle Walk.

In the 1920s it became the Beacon Castle Hotel. It eventually burnt down in a spectacular blaze on 16 May 1985 which took 11 fire crews to extinguish.

He was known as the Kingmaker and lived in Eridge Castle, the ancestral seat of the Marquis of Abergavenny.The lands of Eridge have been in the hands of the Nevill family in a direct male line from

The old smoke house (foreground) was built in 1848 in a romantic style to resemble an ancient castle, complete with mock stone cannons which aided the drainage from the private garden above.

Looking beyond Castle Hill, we see the cliffs around Beer in the distance. This open plain of sea front has since been divided by the sea wall and a modern motor road.

Built in 1592 for Ferdinand, 5th Earl of Derby, to enable him to watch horse-racing on the sands at Meols, Leasowe Castle was converted into a hotel in 1982.

Nearby is Scotney Castle, owned at this time by one of the Hussey family, historic ironmasters of Kent.

In 1965 a brand new one of these, complete with walnut fascia, cost £592-8s-9d at Sparshatts, Castle Way, Southampton.

Begun by William Lord Hastings in 1480, and never finished, Kirby Muxloe is an early example of the use of brick in castle building.

great space was created by Bishop Flambard at the beginning of the 12th century: he decided to demolish the clutter of wooden houses and the market place because of the potential fire hazard to the castle

We are looking from just inside Birmingham Road up Castle Hill, with Tipton Road off to the right. On the extreme left is the Station Garage, then an Austin dealership.