Grobius Shortling's Castle Pictures

England


Bamburgh (1) [with my own feeble effort at a sand castle in front of it, but it was fun doing]
Bamburgh (2) [this was the site of the capital of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kindom of Bernicia]
Bamburgh (3) [view from the landward side on a foggy day]
Bamburgh (4) [view from the landward village side]
Barnard (1) [beautifully sited, especially with the ruined fabric mills on the other side of the river]
Barnard (2) [the round keep]
Barnard (3) [curtain along the river]
Beeston (1) [very impressive and very large, but why did they build it there?]
Beeston (2) [rather difficult to attack from this point]
Beeston (3) [as you can see, the impressive gatehouse is just a shell on the inside]
Beeston (4) [part of outer ward]
Beeston (5) [road to inner ward]
Beeston (6) [the modern drawbridge]
Bolsover [Norman castle converted into a mansion for a very rich man to play Robin Hood in, early 1600s]
Brougham [Lady Clifford's 1620-or-so restoration in a beautiful site]
Corfe (1) [one of the most impressive castles of the middle ages, even in ruin]
Corfe (2) [another view, more wrecked looking]
Dunstanburgh (1) [on the last outcrop of the Great Whin Sill]
Dunstanburgh (2) [great wall tower, about all that is left]
Dunstanburgh (3) [a long slog to reach this place]
Goodrich [fancy spurs to the towers]
Lindisfarne (1) [baah...]
Lindisfarne (2) [and baah humbug...]
Lindisfarne (3) [a very tiny castle remodeled for a rich guy, a jewel, but also a folly]
Lindisfarne (4) [close up of the 'prow' on its crag]
London (1) [King Willie's great erection, not as terrorizing these days compared to a few hundred years ago]
London (2) [Clutter of towers and buildings within this great fortress]
London (3) [The White Tower]
Nottingham [the moat contains statues of Robin Hood characters, so much for the sheriff as a local hero...]
Peveril (1) [a real huff-puff to walk up there...]
Peveril (2) [the castle is just a shell now]
Peveril (3) [awkwardly built on a slope]
Restormel [incredible view over the valley, with the railway running beneath]
Rochester (1) [the Keep]
Rochester (2) [the round turret]
St. Mawes [a piratical-looking castle very near Penzance]
Scarborough [a piratical-looking castle very near Penzance]
Spofforth [ruins of a small hall house castle]
Stokesay [Agatha Christie would feel comfortable here]
Warkworth (1) [this wonderfully arranged keep had wine cellars with private staircases into the Lord's privy chamber]
Warkworth (2) [it was a pretty impressive fortress, too]
Warkworth (3) [wonderful late keep on the original motte]
York [this is where they burned a couple of hundred Jews to death in one of the first pograms] 		Scotland


Ardvreck (1) [this was a really nasty place]
Ardvreck (2) [Scottish patriot Montrose was betrayed here after getting sanctuary, got sold out]
Balvenie [those are turkeys, not geese or sheep; major breweries of Scots whisky are located in this area]
Craigmillar [Edinburgh's second castle, pretty grim place]
Crathes [basically one of those garden places blue-haired tourists go to]
Crichton [remote place where Queen Mary hung out when she wanted to be out of the city]
Dirleton (1) [no less than three remodellings in its history, each better than the other; pity it got wrecked by Cromwell or whoever]
Dirleton (2) [a view of the residential wing]
Dornoch [good recycling into a hotel]
Doune [no less than two Great Halls survive -- very nice castle, and check out those huge kitchen fireplaces!]
Dunbeag [scary, huh? too bad this is private]
Dunnottar (1) [how an enemy would see it and be intimidated]
Dunnottar (2) [even more formidable...]
Dunnottar (3) [one of the runners-up as best-looking castle in the world]
Dunstaffnage [ancient capital of Dalriada and original home of the Stone of Scone]
Eilean Donan (1) [everybody's seen this before]
Eilean Donan (2) [bet you never saw this famous castle from this angle]
Eilean Donan (3) [looks very fortressy here, wouldn't want to attack along that causeway]
Fort George [very fine English colonial fortress, but that's Culloden across the water...]
Girnigoe [fine but scanty cliffside ruin on the North coast]
Hermitage (1) [another grim place like Ardvreck]
Hermitage (2) [a gruesome border fortress]
Lauriston [Edinburgh's third castle, remodeled with the most up-to-date stuff Edwardians liked]
Skelbo (1) [They awaited eagerly here for the Maid of Norway]
Skelbo (2) [They awaited eagerly here for the Maid of Norway]
Tantallon (1) [classic promontory castle]
Tantallon (2) [the great curtain wall and gatehouse]
Urquhart (1) [Loch Ness...]
Urquhart (2) [intentionally muddled impressionistic photo]
Urquhart (3) [view up the lake -- keep tower]
Urquhart (4) [entrance over the ditch, keep behind] 		Wales


Beaumaris (1) [Edward's Trident submarine -- pretty, but overkill]
Beaumaris (2) [Shows the concentric layout]
Beaumaris (3) [Peaceful-looking now, not its original purpose]
Carreg Cennan (1) [bandits hung out here after the Welsh kingdom fell]
Carreg Cennan (2) [visited in winter, which is more impressive than summer...]
Dolwyddelan (1) [Llewellyn's hideaway]
Dolwyddelan (2) [...not very comfortable, from the look of it]
Manorbier [home of Giraldus Cambrensis, one of those few fortunate people who managed to live a good life all the way through]
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