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Before the list itself, a discussion of its scope includes lengthy lists of buildings excluded from the main lists for various reasons. The Castellarium Anglicanum, an authoritative index of castles in England and Wales published in 1983, lists over 1,500 castle sites in England. [2] Many of these castles have vanished or left almost no trace.
Dover, Kent, England 1262 York Castle: York, Yorkshire, England 1265 Caerphilly Castle: Caerphilly, South Wales 1268–1271 A concentric stone castle surrounded by lakes, the second largest fortress in Britain. [64] Tintern Abbey: Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales 1269–1301 [65] The existing ruins of the great church date from this period. All ...
Wolvesey Castle (Old Bishop's Palace), Winchester: Castle: 1130 Ruins A castle erected by the Bishop of Winchester, Henry of Blois. It was the scene for the Rout of Winchester in which the Empress Matilda assaulted the Bishop Henry in 1141. The castle was destroyed by Roundheads during the English Civil War in 1646.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 February 2025. Official country residence of British monarch This article is about the castle in Windsor, Berkshire. For other uses, see Windsor Castle (disambiguation). Windsor Castle Windsor, Berkshire, in England Round Tower and Upper Ward viewed from the Long Walk in Windsor Great Park Windsor ...
Chepstow Castle (Welsh: Castell Cas-gwent) at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, is the oldest surviving post-Roman stone fortification in Britain.Located above cliffs on the River Wye, construction began in 1067 under the instruction of the Norman Lord William FitzOsbern.
The castle was extended under William Longchamp, King Richard's Lord Chancellor and the man in charge of England while he was on crusade. The Pipe rolls record £2,881 1s 10d spent at the Tower of London between 3 December 1189 and 11 November 1190, [73] from an estimated £7,000 spent by Richard on castle building in England. [74]
The presence of castles in Britain and Ireland dates primarily from the Norman invasion of 1066. [10] There were, however, a small number of castles built in England during the 1050s, by Norman knights in the service of Edward the Confessor. [11] These include Hereford, Clavering, Richard's Castle and possibly Ewyas Harold Castle and Dover. [12 ...
The castle is the third-oldest continuously occupied castle in England, after the royal fortresses of the Tower of London and Windsor Castle, and the oldest to be continuously family-owned and occupied. It contains an antique four-poster bed that has been identified as the piece of furniture remaining longest in continuous use in the Great ...