Before you can ask what makes a castle cool, you need to know exactly ... kind of fortification built for defense—using moats, curtain walls, drawbridges, and elevation on islands, hills ...

a moat and a drawbridge but by the 16th Century most of the castle was a ruin. Sections of the defensive curtain wall have survived underneath mounds of earth but are on Historic England's ...

used by the Normans to subjugate England and Wales in the 11th century. We then look at how castle's became stronger and more sophisticated, with the addition of stone curtain walls, massive keeps ...

How fitting, therefore, that the building of England’s strongest, Dover Castle’s Great Tower ... including an inner-bailey curtain wall with 14 square towers and two gatehouses. The concentric lines ...

Set in Kent, the “Garden of England,” just 35 miles ... the Relais & Châteaux castle still flaunts its original stone curtain walls with crenelations, a working portcullis and twin-tower ...

The Grade I country house dates back to the 19th century Plans to dismantle a curtain wall to allow for restoration work at a castle have ... steal from ATMs across England.

It links the castle's curtain wall to a huge 13th-century turret ... the War of the Roses in 1464 and became the first castle in England to be damaged by gunfire. By 1610, the castle was gifted ...

Tamworth Castle in Staffordshire is set to receive £1.7m of grant funding for urgent repairs and improvements. Arts Council England's Museum and Development Fund has allocated the funds as part ...