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Caverswall Castle

Caverswall Castle

Now privately owned, the Castle has undergone complete restoration and is available for private hire. The grand Medieval and Jacobean architecture ...

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Alton Castle

Remains of castle built circa 1175 with 13th-14th century alterations, and dismantled in the Civil War. Alton Castle is now in its 14th year as a ...

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Filed Under: Staffordshire Tagged With: Castles

Hartlebury Castle

The Worcestershire County Museum at Hartlebury Castle hosts temporary exhibitions, exciting events and arts & craft courses throughout the year, so ...

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Filed Under: Worcestershire Tagged With: Castles, Museums

This gate was begon in the yere of our Lord God 1511, the 2 year of the reigne of Kynge Henry the VIII. by me Edward Duke of Bukkyngham, Erle of Hereford, Staford, and Northampton.

Thornbury Castle

Built 1510/11 for the Duke of Buckingham, incorporating parts of a house of circa 1330. In 1521 the Duke was arrested and executed and the building ...

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Filed Under: Gloucestershire Tagged With: Castles

Sudeley Castle Plan

Sudeley Castle

Mid 15th century castle, possibly on the site of a Stephanic castle, rebuilt in the late 15th century and altered circa 1572. It fell into a period of ...

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Filed Under: Gloucestershire Tagged With: Castles, Gardens, Houses

St Briavels Castle

St. Briavel's Castle

St Briavels Castle is situated on the edge of a steep scarp above the River Wye and is believed to have been sited on this spot to control a nearby ...

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Filed Under: Gloucestershire Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Beverston Castle

A roughly pentagonal moated castle built, without licence in 1229, with round towers and a twin-tower gatehouse which may well be later. From about ...

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Filed Under: Gloucestershire Tagged With: Castles

Berkeley Castle

Berkeley Castle

Berkeley Castle has been lived in by the same family for over 900 years. It is where history has been made. Where Edward II was murdered, where the ...

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Filed Under: Gloucestershire Tagged With: Castles, Gardens, Houses

Warwick Castle

Warwick Castle

A Medieval motte and bailey castle built in 1068 extended and rebuilt during the 13th and 14th century with 15th century additions. The castle was ...

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Filed Under: Warwickshire Tagged With: Attraction, Castles

Maxstoke Castle

Maxstoke Castle

Fortified manor house or castle, built circa 1345, and partly remodelled by the Earl of Stafford a century later. The surviving remains consist of a ...

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Filed Under: Warwickshire Tagged With: Castles

Caludon Castle

The ruins, earthwork and buried remains of the moated site known as Caludon Castle no within Caludon Castle Park, one of Coventry's Formal Parks. It ...

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Filed Under: Warwickshire Tagged With: Castles

Baginton Castle

Also known as Bagot's Castle, the standing and buried remains of Baginton or Bagot's Castle probably built circa 1397 by Sir William Bagot. Bagot's ...

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Filed Under: Warwickshire Tagged With: Castles

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