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CASTLES TO VISIT<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n

Great British castles<\/h2>\n\n

Looking for a castle to visit? You could do no better than to add these spectacular structures to your checklist <\/p>\n\n

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A view of Harlech Castle, with its southeast tower in the foreground. The fortification took seven years to build <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

HARLECH<\/span> <\/strong>GWYNEDD <\/h3>\n\n
A Welsh landmark and the site of bravery in the face of terrible odds <\/h5>\n\n
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Part of the castle\u2019s ruined interior; a fireplace is visible on the first floor level <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

The song \u2018Men of Harlech\u2019 is as synonymous with Welsh culture as \u2018Bread of Heaven\u2019 and \u2018The Green, Green Grass of Home\u2019. And at the heart of this rousing regimental march is a tale of heroism and defiance \u2013 and one spectacular castle. <\/p>\n\n

Sitting on a rocky crag in Gwynedd, Harlech is arguably the most spectacular of all the fortifications that Edward I built in north Wales during his campaign to subdue the country. The castle took just six years to build (in the 1280s) and is a classic example of the \u2018walls within walls\u2019 design. <\/p>\n\n

The Men of Harlech referred to in the famous song are believed to be the Lancastrian defenders who, in the 1460s, held out against a massive Yorkist army during the Wars of the Roses before succumbing to overwhelming odds, the defenders enders <\/span>(in the words of one poet) \u201cshattered by the sound of guns\u201d. <\/p>\n\n

Yet this was far from the first time that the castle had come under attack. In 1404, Owain Glynd\u0175r, iconic leader of the resistance to the English occupation of Wales, captured Harlech and made it his main residence and court. This was too much for the English to endure, and in 1409 Henry of Monmouth (later to be Henry V) laid siege to the castle. This time, Harlech\u2019s defenders were forced into surrender by a punishing bombardment. The castle fell under English control again but Glynd\u0175r escaped to fight another day. <\/p>\n\n

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Kenilworth Castle was heavily modified over the course of several centuries <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

KENILWORTH<\/span> <\/strong>WARWICKSHIRE <\/h3>\n\n
Later owned by Elizabeth I\u2019s favourite, the fortress was once at the centre of a huge rebellion <\/h5>\n\n

Kenilworth Castle, which stands sentinel over the rolling Warwickshire countryside, was once owned by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the famed admirer of Elizabeth I. Yet it was under a previous Earl of Leicester, Simon de Montfort, that the castle, whose massive keep dates to the 1120s, made its greatest contribution to English history. <\/p>\n\n

It was from Kenilworth that de Montfort planned a huge rebellion against Henry III, lighting the touch paper for the Second Barons\u2019 War (1264\u201367). De Montfort briefly got the better of the king before being killed at the battle of Evesham in 1265. Yet that didn\u2019t bring Kenilworth\u2019s role in the conflict to an end. For it was to the castle that de Montfort\u2019s defeated allies retreated for one last \u2013 and doomed \u2013 stand against Henry\u2019s rampant forces. <\/p>\n\n

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Beaumaris Castle is famous for its near-perfect symmetry <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

BEAUMARIS<\/span> <\/strong>GWYNEDD <\/h3>\n\n
A true masterpiece of castle design on the Isle of Anglesey <\/h5>\n\n

Beaumaris has been described as Britain’s \u201cmost perfect example of symmetrical concentric planning\u201d. And a visit to the castle, sited on the eastern shores of Anglesey, soon reveals why. Beaumaris was the last of the royal strongholds created by Edward I, and the lessons that the king and his architect James of St George learned at the likes of Harlech and Conwy were applied to stunning effect, producing four concentric rings of impressive defences, a moat and a dock. <\/p>\n\n

Like a number of castles, Beaumaris was besieged by parliamentarian forces during the Civil Wars. Unlike other castles, however, it survived relatively unscathed following its fall, in 1646. <\/p>\n\n

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The castle is perched on top of a volcanic plug <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

EDINBURGH<\/span> <\/strong>CITY OF EDINBURGH <\/h3>\n\n
The nucleus of Scottish power <\/h5>\n\n

Sitting atop a mighty rock at the heart of Scotland\u2019s capital, Edinburgh Castle has played a starring role in Scottish history since Iron Age people recognised its strategic value and built a fort here. Like Stirling, <\/em>many of Edinburgh Castle\u2019s most celebrated episodes took place during the Scottish Wars of Independence (1296\u20131357), perhaps none more dramatic than when Thomas Randolph, nephew of Scotland\u2019s king Robert Bruce, seized the fortification from its occupiers following an audacious night raid in 1314. <\/p>\n\n

The popular tourist destination now exhibits some of the most priceless artefacts in all of Scottish history, from the Scottish crown jewels to the iconic Stone of Destiny, an ancient symbol of the nation\u2019s monarchy. <\/p>\n\n

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The turret on top of Lincoln Castle\u2019s Observatory Tower was added in 1820 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

LINCOLN<\/span> <\/strong>LINCOLNSHIRE <\/h3>\n\n
The castle that changed the course of English history \u2013 not once, but twice <\/h5>\n\n

Some of England\u2019s most celebrated castles have witnessed little conflict during their centuries-long existences. Lincoln certainly isn\u2019t one of them. The fortification \u2013 which is one of only two castles in Britain to boast two mottes (the other being Lewes in East Sussex) \u2013 was constructed by William the Conqueror two years after defeating Harold Godwinson at the battle of Hastings. William sought to put down an uprising in the Midlands and the North, and Lincoln was one of a chain of castles that the Conqueror built to subdue his recalcitrant new subjects. <\/p>\n\n

It was in the mid-12th and early 13th centuries, however, that Lincoln found itself at the very centre of national events, staging two battles that changed the course of English history. The first occurred at the height of the vicious struggle for the English throne between King Stephen and Empress Matilda, now known as the Anarchy. It was while besieging the castle in February 1141 that Stephen\u2019s forces were put to flight by an army loyal to Matilda. Stephen was captured and thrown in prison \u2013 and Matilda, for a short time at least, was the most powerful figure in England. <\/p>\n\n

Lincoln Castle was engulfed by conflict again in May 1217 during the First Barons\u2019 War, a conflict that saw Prince Louis of France (later Louis VIII) invade England with the support of a number of rebellious English barons. Louis had at some point held the upper hand, yet his hopes of victory were dashed at Lincoln when his troops were defeated and sent into retreat by an army loyal to Henry III. <\/p>\n\n

Fighting on such a scale hasn\u2019t returned to Lincoln over the past 800 years, but the castle remains a hive of activity today, remaining in use as a court. <\/p>\n\n

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A view of the castle\u2019s outer west gatehouse <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

CAERPHILLY<\/span> <\/strong>GWENT <\/h3>\n\n
The design marvel that almost never happened <\/h5>\n\n

Caerphilly Castle is one of the greatest landmarks in south Wales. Boasting colossal walls, towers and gatehouses \u2013 and occupying a central island surrounded by <\/span>artificial lakes \u2013 it looks as majestic today as it did in the Middle Ages. Yet it was very nearly never built. The English noble Gilbert de Clare\u2019s attempt to construct a castle in the southeast corner of Wales in the late 13th century was scotched by his powerful Welsh rival Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, who burned the site in 1270.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Llywelyn\u2019s power declined, however, with the rise of English king Edward I, and Caerphilly would evolve into a palatial residence, one whose concentric design became an exemplar for other castles across Wales. <\/p>\n\n

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The ruins of Corfe Castle dominate the landscape <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

CORFE<\/span><\/strong> DORSET <\/h3>\n\n
There\u2019s a dark history hiding among this West Country castle\u2019s impressive ruins <\/h5>\n\n

Corfe Castle\u2019s majestic ruins \u2013 overlooking the tranquil village of the same name \u2013 belie a bleak, often violent history. The fortification rose out of the countryside during the reign of William the Conqueror. Yet it was under William\u2019s descendant King John that the castle witnessed its darkest hour. Here, in 1203, the monarch ordered 22 knights to be starved to death in its dungeons.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Corfe would remain one of southern England\u2019s most impressive castles until the mid-17th century, when it became the site of two sieges during the Civil Wars. A royalist garrison headed by Lady Bankes, wife of the Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, defied parliamentarian forces until 1646. Yet when the resistance collapsed, the castle was partially destroyed on the orders of parliament, leaving the ruins that welcome visitors today. <\/p>\n\n

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Clifford\u2019s Tower was the scene of an atrocity that claimed the lives of around 150 Jewish people <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

YORK<\/span> <\/strong>NORTH YORKS <\/h3>\n\n
Witness to rebellion and a massacre <\/h5>\n\n

York Castle isn\u2019t a single edifice but a complex of buildings. The most famous of them all is the castle keep, now better known as Clifford\u2019s Tower, standing atop a motte just south of the city centre. It\u2019s an imposing edifice \u2013 and, in all truth, it had to be, for York Castle endured a tempestuous early history. <\/p>\n\n

The first castle, a basic wooden motte and bailey fortification, was captured and partially destroyed during fighting between York\u2019s Norman occupiers and a Viking army supported by local rebels in 1069. Yet the castle\u2019s darkest hour arrived in 1189, when local Jews were murdered or took their own lives after fleeing into the keep to escape an anti-Semitic mob. <\/p>\n\n

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Tourists make their way down Windsor Castle\u2019s famous Long Walk <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

WINDSOR<\/span> <\/strong>BERKSHIRE <\/h3>\n\n
A home of kings and queens for more than 900 years <\/h5>\n\n

Windsor is arguably the most famous castle in Britain. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were married here in 2018, Queen Elizabeth II was buried here and King Charles III is often resident here. <\/p>\n\n

In fact, as the longest-occupied palace in Europe, Windsor has barely been out of the news since it was built to project Norman dominance along the Thames Valley at the end of the 11th century. Since Henry I moved in at the start of the 12th century, successive monarchs have added their own grand design statements over the past millennium. Yet it was built first and foremost as a fortification, as was proven by its ability to withstand a siege during the First Barons\u2019 War. <\/p>\n\n

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The windswept ruins of Tintagel Castle have inspired countless artists, authors and poets <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n

TINTAGEL<\/span> <\/strong>CORNWALL <\/h3>\n\n
The picturesque Cornish castle with connections to the Arthurian legend <\/h5>\n\n

Some castles are bigger. Some easier to reach. Others less impacted by the ravages of time. Yet when it comes to sheer mystique, few can compare with Tintagel. And much of that magic stems from the castle\u2019s associations with one of the great legendary figures of British history: King Arthur. <\/p>\n\n

Arthur was conceived at Tintagel \u2013 the product of a romantic liaison involving Uther Pendragon and the beautiful Igraine. That, at least, is what the 12th-century cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth tell us in his Historia <\/em>Regum <\/em>Britanniae <\/em>(\u2018History of the Kings of Britain\u2019). <\/p>\n\n

Geoffrey\u2019s account of Arthur\u2019s conception and subsequent life may owe more to his vivid imagination than historical fact, but it certainly stuck. In fact, Tintagel has been intimately connected to the story of Arthur ever since. And that connection may have played a role in Richard, Earl of Cornwall\u2019s decision to build a castle on this windswept headland in the 1230s. The remains of much of Richard\u2019s building project \u2013 including two courtyards, a curtain wall and a gate tower \u2013 can still be seen today, despite 800 years of unforgiving Cornish weather. <\/span> Tintagel slowly went into decline (and ruin) after Richard\u2019s death but it never lost its power to fire the imagination. That much became obvious in the <\/span>18th and 19th centuries when artists such as Alfred Tennyson began romanticising the castle once more via paintings and prose. Today, courtesy of a new footbridge connecting the mainland to the headland, it\u2019s never been easier to experience that romance for yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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A cantilever footbridge linking the castle to the mainland was opened in 2019 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
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Constable\u2019s Gate \u2013 the traditional residence of the deputy constable of Dover Castle <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

DOVER<\/span> <\/strong>KENT <\/h3>\n\n
The imposing \u2018key to England\u2019 that has often been at the centre of national events <\/h5>\n\n

Standing sentinel over the shortest crossing point between Kent and continental Europe, Dover was dubbed \u2018the key to England\u2019 by a 13th-century chronicler. This site was, however, home to fortifications long before the kingdom of England came into being. In fact, archaeology suggests that a fort might have stood here from at least the first century BC. What is certain is that the Romans made use of the location, building (among other things) an octagonal lighthouse \u2013 later converted into a bell tower \u2013 that still stands today. <\/p>\n\n

William the Conqueror built a fortress at Dover shortly after the battle of Hastings, yet it was during the rule of Henry II (1154\u201389) that the castle received a makeover. In the last decade of his reign Henry constructed Dover\u2019s mighty great tower, or keep, surrounded by a curtain wall studded with towers. <\/p>\n\n

Dover was now one of the most technically advanced castles in the whole of Europe, a sophistication it exhibited on a number of occasions in the Middle Ages. It resisted determined sieges waged by Prince Louis of France in 1216 and 1217 during the First Barons\u2019 War. A siege during the Second Barons\u2019 War (1264\u201367) eventually ended in a negotiated settlement. <\/p>\n\n

Dover Castle has witnessed less violence since the Middle Ages yet it has remained very much at the centre of national events. Henry VIII hosted the Holy Roman Emperor here in 1520, underground barracks were built here in the Napoleonic Wars, and during World War I the castle became the headquarters of a garrison comprising 16,000 troops. In the Cold War, it was even earmarked as a potential seat of government in the event of a nuclear attack. <\/p>\n\n

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One of the Roman-era towers at Portchester Castle, which overlooks Portsmouth Harbour<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

PORTCHESTER<\/span> <\/strong>HAMPSHIRE <\/h3>\n\n
Standing guard over the English Channel since Roman times <\/h5>\n\n

While many of Britain\u2019s castles are the product of Norman craftsmanship, Porchester has a much longer history, stretching back to Roman Britain. Recognising the strategic importance of a location that overlooks Portsmouth\u2019s natural harbour, in the third century the legions built what remains the best preserved Roman fort north of the Alps.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The Anglo-Saxons were the next to move in, occupying the remains of the Roman site from around the fifth century. But it was under the Normans that the castle\u2019s impressive keep appeared. For centuries Portchester played a starring role in England\u2019s tempestuous relationship with France, falling to a French invasion force in 1216 and acting as the launchpad for English campaigns across the Channel.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Kidwelly Castle\u2019s southern gatehouse <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

KIDWELLY<\/span> <\/strong>CARMARTHENSHIRE <\/h3>\n\n
The centre of a tug-of-war between Norman and Welsh warlords <\/h5>\n\n

A network of castles are dotted along the coast of south Wales \u2013 evidence of centuries of conflict between the native princes and Norman lords. Few are more impressive than Kidwelly, rising above the River Gwendraeth in rural Carmarthenshire, and few changed hands more times. <\/p>\n\n

Kidwelly was built as a Norman \u2018ringwork\u2019 castle in the early 12th century and soon came under attack from a series of Welsh princes, including the Lord Rhys, who captured it in 1159. The castle passed back into the hands of Anglo-Norman lords before falling to Llewelyn the Great, bane of King John and Henry III, in 1231. <\/p>\n\n

Kidwelly has enjoyed a quieter existence since the end of the Anglo-Welsh wars. In fact its greatest claim to fame in the past century is, perhaps, appearing in the opening scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Pembroke Castle is famous for being the birthplace of Henry Tudor \u2013 later Henry VII <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

PEMBROKE<\/span> <\/strong>PEMBROKESHIRE <\/h3>\n\n
The cradle of the very first Tudor monarch <\/h5>\n\n

The 28th of January 1457 was a turning point in British history. Not that anyone knew it at the time. On that winter\u2019s day in the heart of the 15th century, a teenaged noblewoman named Margaret Beaufort gave birth to a son who would grow up to defeat Richard III in battle at Bosworth. The son\u2019s name was Henry Tudor and (as Henry VII) he would go on to found one of England\u2019s most celebrated royal dynasties. <\/p>\n\n

Pembroke Castle had occupied a strategic site in southwest Wales since the late 11th century. A century later it came into the possession of the medieval period\u2019s most famed knight, William Marshal. It was Marshal who ordered the building of the great round keep that dominates the castle today. <\/p>\n\n

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Alnwick (pronounced \u2018Annick\u2019) Castle is still home to the Percy family today <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

ALNWICK<\/span> <\/strong>NORTHUMBERLAND <\/h3>\n\n
An impressive English castle prized by the Scots <\/h5>\n\n

Nestled in Northumberland, in England\u2019s northeastern corner, Alnwick Castle found itself in the front line of the recurring conflicts that erupted between England and Scotland across the Middle Ages. Just four decades after it was constructed by the Norman noble Ivo de Vescy at the end of the 11th century, the fortification was captured by Scottish king David I. Some 40 years later, the Scots were back again, this time under William the Lion, who besieged the castle twice in the 1170s (before being captured by English forces outside the town). <\/p>\n\n

The year 1309 was a landmark one in Alnwick\u2019s long history, for it was then that the castle came into the possession of the powerful Percy family, who have lived here for much of the past 700 years. It was probably at the end of the 15th century that the castle\u2019s impressive barbican was built, helping make Alnwick the second largest inhabited castle in the UK. <\/p>\n\n

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A view of Stirling Castle\u2019s Royal Palace, which was added by James V of Scotland in the 1530s and 1540s <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

STIRLING<\/span> <\/strong>STIRLINGSHIRE <\/h3>\n\n
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A statue of Robert the Bruce at the castle commemorates his victory at nearby Bannockurn in 1314 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
A rallying point during the brutal Wars of Scottish Independence <\/h5>\n\n

The 13th and 14th centuries saw England and Scotland involved in a titanic battle for supremacy (now known as the Wars of Scottish Independence) \u2013 and Stirling Castle was invariably at the heart of the action. <\/span><\/p>\n\n

Guarding the lowest crossing point of the River Forth, Stirling appears to have been an important royal centre from at least the early 1100s. Yet it was from the end of the 13th century, when Edward I of England launched an invasion of Scotland, that the castle gained its iconic status. The English occupied the castle at the end of the 1290s yet were dislodged following William Wallace\u2019s famous victory over the invaders at nearby Stirling Bridge. The castle also played a pivotal role in the story of another heavyweight of Scottish history, Robert the Bruce. In 1314, while the <\/span> castle was again in English hands, a force was sent north of the border to help ward off a Scottish siege. However, that army <\/span>was soundly defeated by Bruce\u2019s forces at Bannockburn, in sight of the castle walls. <\/p>\n\n

Stirling would swap hands on a number of occasions until 1342, when it permanently fell under Scottish rule. From then on, it became the preferred residence of a string of Scottish rulers, including James IV, the renaissance monarch who spent a great deal of money trying to make the castle fit for an enlightened European king. Mary, Queen of Scots was crowned in Stirling Castle in 1543 and it was here that her son, James VI, was baptised before going on to reverse centuries of Anglo-Scottish enmity by uniting the two crowns. <\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Words: Spencer Mizen <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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