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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