Website Summary
This site contains information on over 840 English and Welsh castles, fortified manor houses, Bishop's palaces and Pele towers constructed over the last twenty centuries. These range from the most impressive and powerful of structures like Dover Castle to worn earthworks that are all that are now left of sites such as Elmley Castle. There is also information on 270 of the mainly 18th and 19th century coastal forts and gun batteries that can still be seen, mainly around the south coast of England.History
The first stone fortifications were constructed by the Romans in the 1st Century, and they were so well built as at Portchester that many are still standing. The next wave of castle building started in all the major towns and cities after the Norman invasion and between 1066 and 1200 well over two and a half thousand castles were erected. Most were simple earth and timber structures and have now either vanished or exist only as a motte, a grassy mound, or earthworks........moreUsing the Site
Use the Maps menu to select one of the 12 regions of England & Wales and then either click on the castle icons, or use the dropdown lists on each of the map pages. To find a specific castle or fortification use either the Search menu for A - Z listings or use the Site Map to search by county.Photographs
840 of the sites have been photographed so far with your help for which I am very appreciative. If you have any photos of any castles or forts not yet photographed then please do email
me
Books on Castles
Mike Salter has lovingly produced a set of 34 paperbacks
which cover in great detail ALL the castles and other sites in the UK
county by county. For more info visit Folly Publications ......... and take a book with you as you travel around! New/Updated Info
April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013Site update & Google Maps
November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012- Narberth
- Lamphey Palace
- Penhallam
- Llawhaden
- Wiston
- Pengersick
- Bampton
- Penstowe
- Someries
- Wayneflete Tower
- Pulborough
- Knepp
- Bramber
- Isfield
- Glottenham
- Edburton
- Corfe
- Chessington
- Bungay
- Faulkbourne Hall
- Nether Hall
- Great Ashfield
- Mount Bures
- Denham
- Mileham
- Gresham
- Thornton Abbey
- Rochford Tower
- Totternhoe