With a history stretching back over 16 centuries, Pevensey Castle chronicles more graphically than any other fortress the story of Britain’s south coast defences. Beginning in the 4th century as one of the last and strongest of the Roman ‘Saxon Shore’ forts – two-thirds of whose towered walls still stand – it was the landing […]
Lewes Castle
Lewes Castle and adjacent Barbican House Museum are now open to the public again. There was a Saxon castle here in very early times, on the site of which William de Warenne and his wife Gundred, the daughter of Duke William, reared a Norman castle, which continued in the hands of that family until their […]
Knepp Castle
The castle is visible from the road and the estate is home to a variety of events including polo. Some 500 acres are now part of a conservation project which, among other things “… provide permissive, open public access to the area around the old castle ruin and provide interpretative material to enable visitors to […]
Hurstmonceux Castle
The castle now houses The Bader International Study Centre, Queen’s University (Canada) but the gardens and grounds are occasionally open to the public. N.B. Be warned – the post code will mislead sat nav users. Three miles from Pevensey. A noble castellated mansion, built entirely of red brick with stone dressings, in the best style […]
Hastings Castle
Castle and Collegiate Church. Castle built circa 1170, ruined by 1399. The church was founded circa 1090, dissolved in 1547. Foundations of church, North and East curtain walls and East gate of the castle are visible. Probably built on an Iron Age enclosure. There is documentary evidence that a collegiate foundation existed in Hastings in […]