The Queen of England may spend the weekend and ... an advisor of King Henry II, rebuilt the castle with a stone curtain wall to go with the earthwork defenses and water-filled ditches, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Britain lost a piece of its heritage yesterday when one of the last remaining sections of Lewes Castle’s curtain wall crumbled to the ground. The 600-tonne wall caved in just after 12.20pm, falling ...

The owner, Mr Kazuhiko Akao, applied for permission to dismantle the curtain wall shortly after the council approved “urgent conservation-led repairs” to the castle. Mr Akao had reported that ...

Tamworth Council was placed on Arts Council England's at-risk register last year Tamworth Castle in Staffordshire is set to receive £1.7m of grant funding for urgent repairs and improvements.