Taunton Castle is a castle built to defend the town of Taunton, Somerset.
It has origins in the Anglo Saxon period and was later the site of a priory. The Normans then built a stone structured castle, which belonged to the Bishops of Winchester. The current heavily reconstructed buildings are the inner ward, which now houses the county museum, and the Michelin Guide starred Castle Hotel on the site of one of the previous gate houses.
Bridgwater Castle was in the town of Bridgwater, Somerset.
The castle was built in 1202 by William Brewer. It passed to the king in 1233[2] and in 1245 repairs were ordered to its motte and towers. During the 11th century Second Barons' War against Henry III, Bridgwater was held by the barons against the King.
In the English Civil War the town and the castle were held by the Royalists under Colonel Sir Francis Wyndham. Eventually, with many buildings destroyed in the town, the castle and its valuable contents were surrendered to the Parliamentarians. The castle itself was deliberately destroyed in 1645.
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Castle Old Fort is a small Iron Age hill fort near Walsall Wood, in the West Midlands, England. Its interior is now occupied by a house.
The fort covers 3.5 acres acres in an ovoid shape, measuring 170 m from north to south and 130 m from east to west. It has an earth rampart surrounded by a ditch, with an entrance in the south east. There is some evidence that there may originally have been a second line of defences comprising a bank and a ditch.
The seventeenth century archaeologist Robert Plot reported findings of flint arrowheads, Roman pottery and Roman coins of Otho, Domitian and Nero, and the existence of a second entrance in the north west of the fort, in an area that has since been destroyed by quarrying.
Baynard Castle was a motte castle built in the 12th century in the village of Cottingham which is some 7 km south of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire. It was sometimes referred to as the 'castle at Cottingham' or 'Stuteville's castle'.
The motte castle was held by William de Stuteville and, around 1200, King John granted a licence to fortify the site. In the 14th century a further licence was granted to fortify a manor house on the site.
Today, only the mound survives, surrounded by a substantial moat on four sides. This can be seen from the corner of West End Road and Northgate, opposite the entrance to The Lawns. A four-bay timber-framed house of circa 15th century (known as the Old Manor House) which still stands on the site, accessed from Hallgate, is privately owned.
Hull Castle was situated in what is now the city of Kingston upon Hull in the historic county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
This was a coastal fortress built by Henry VIII between 1538 and 1544. It was the most northerly of these fortresses and the last to be built during his reign. It was sited between two blockhouses and connected to them by a curtain wall. Around 1680 it was absorbed into the Citadel and used as a magazine. It was finally demolished in 1863.
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St Michael's Mount (Cornish: Karrek Loos y'n Koos) is a tidal island located 366 m (400 yd) off the Mount's Bay coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is united with the town of Marazion by a man-made causeway, passable only at mid to low tide, made of granite setts. The island exhibits a combination of slate and granite.
Its Cornish language name — literally, the grey rock in the wood — may represent a folk memory of a time before Mount's Bay was flooded. Certainly, the Cornish name would be an accurate description of the Mount set in woodland. Remains of trees have been seen at low tides following storms on the beach at Perranuthnoe, but radiocarbon dating established the submerging of the hazel wood at about 1700 BC.
In prehistoric times, St. Michael's Mount may have been a port for the tin trade, and Gavin de Beer made a case for it to be identified with the "tin port" Ictis/Ictin mentioned by Posidonius.
Hornby Castle, Yorkshire (North Riding), was a fourteenth and fifteenth-century courtyard castle, with a late fourteenth-century corner tower known as St Quintin's Tower, after the medieval family which occupied the castle (demolished in 1927) and fifteenth century work done for William, Lord Conyers.
Hornby was largely rebuilt in the 1760s by John Carr of York, who was responsible for the surviving south range and the east range (demolished in the 1930s) and outbuildings, for Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness. The eventual heir was the Duke of Leeds, who assembled there rich early eighteenth-century furniture from several houses, illustrated in the books of Percy Macquoid.
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Castle Cary is a market town and civil parish in south Somerset, England, 5 miles north west of Wincanton and 8 miles (12.9 km) south of Shepton Mallet.
The town is situated on the River Cary, a tributary of the Parrett.
