Published on 12, July, 2020
Inspired by an off-the-cuff remark I made in another thread, I thought I would actually start this thread off.
Please share your favourite castle (or Mediaeval Abbey, Friary, or Priory), if possible with a picture and saying a little bit about it.
I will kick off with Corfe Castle. A picturesque ruin in Dorset (belonging to the National Trust), and as a bonus can be reached by steam train from Swanage with one of the finest 'railway views' in Britain! A good view from the castle as well
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As children we grew up in a deprived inner city area with no castles. However several Sundays a year, my father took the whole family to Roundhay park which was on a direct bus route and at the city edge. There I finally experienced some fresh air and my first castle. I must have visited this castle over 50 times in my childhood because we followed the same long routes through the park and woodlands.
Many years later I was reading a book about the park and discovered that this castle wasn't the medival relic that I had imagined. But in fact a 19th century folly. And the it had only existed as a partially built castle gate. And nothing else.
Unless you knew at the time, it looks very impressive and from the picture looks as if it would fool most people.