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Donnington Castle

The striking twin-towered 14th- century gatehouse of this castle, later the focus of a Civil War siege and battle, survives amid impressive ...

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Filed Under: Berkshire Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Deddington Castle

An 11th century motte and bailey castle, with a bailey to the west of the motte, and a ditched enclosure to the east which contained 4 fishponds. The ...

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Filed Under: Oxfordshire Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Baconsthorpe Castle

The extensive ruins of Baconsthorpe Castle, a moated and fortified 15th-century manor house, are a testament to the rise and fall of a prominent ...

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Filed Under: Norfolk Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Weeting Castle

The remains of the 12th century hall house known as Weeting Castle, together with buried remains relating to earlier occupation of the site during the ...

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Filed Under: Norfolk Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

North Elmham Chapel

A place with an unusual story, told by graphic panels. The small Norman chapel here stood on the site of an earlier timber church, probably the Saxon ...

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Filed Under: Norfolk Tagged With: Castles, Cathedrals - Ecclesiastical, English Heritage

Castle Rising

Castle Rising

One of the largest, best preserved and most lavishly decorated keeps in England, surrounded by 20 acres of mighty earthworks. Begun in 1138 by William ...

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Filed Under: Norfolk Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Castle Acre

Castle Acre

Castle Acre is a very rare and complete survival of a Norman planned settlement, including a castle, town, parish church and associated monastery. All ...

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Filed Under: Norfolk Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Framlingham Castle

Framlingham Castle

Framlingham is a magnificent example of a late 12th-century castle. Built by Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, one of the most influential people at the ...

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Filed Under: Suffolk Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Burgh Castle

The imposing stone walls, with added towers for catapults, of a Roman 3rd-century 'Saxon Shore' fort. Panoramic views over Breydon Water, into which ...

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Filed Under: Norfolk Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Tilbury Fort

The artillery fort at Tilbury on the Thames estuary protected London's seaward approach from the 16th century through to World War II. Henry VIII ...

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Filed Under: Essex Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Landguard Fort

The site of the last opposed invasion of England in 1667 and the first land battle of the Royal Marines. The current fort was built in the 18th ...

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Filed Under: Suffolk Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

Hadleigh Castle

Hadleigh Castle

The romantic ruins of a royal castle overlooking the Essex marshes. Hadleigh was begun in about 1215 by Hubert de Burgh, but extensively refortified ...

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Filed Under: Essex Tagged With: Castles, English Heritage

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