Castles, Palaces & Stately Homes
Around 1070, the half brother of William the Conqueror, Robert of Mortain, built a timber castle on this site.
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Berry Pomeroy Castle consists of a Tudor mansion within the walls of an earlier castle, located deep wooded valley.
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The present structure of Bolingbroke Castle was founded by Ranulf, Earl of Chester, in 1220 shortly after he returned from the Fifth Crusade.
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Eastnor Castle is a 19th century mock castle, founded by John Cocks, 1st Earl Somers & still inhabited by his descendants today.
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Originally called Danson Hill, the Palladian villa was designed by Sir Robert Taylor and built 1764-67 for Sir John Boyd.
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Edlingham Castle is a small castle ruin dating back to the 12th century.
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The current house was built in the 1930s on the site of the original Eltham Palace, gifted to to Edward II in 1305.
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Etal Castle was founded by the Manners family in the late 12th century.
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Built around 1085-7, Eynsford Castle is one of the most complete Norman castles in England,
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Farleigh Hungerford Castle, is a medieval castle built by Thomas Hungerford between 1377 and 1383.
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Built by Henry VIII in 1547, Yarmouth Castle is a small off-square blockhouse built to guard Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight harbour.
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Woodchester Mansion is an unfinished, Gothic revival mansion house in Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire.
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Witley Court was once one of the great houses of the Midlands, but today it is a spectacular ruin after being devastated by fire in 1937.
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Wingfield Manor was built around 1450 for Ralph de Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell, then Chancellor of England.
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Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire is over five hundred years old and one of the best preserved medieval manor houses in England.
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Goodrich Castle is a now ruinous Norman medieval castle declared by Wordsworth to be the "noblest ruin in Herefordshire".
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Built between 1481 and 1495, Dartmouth Castle is one of a pair of forts that guard the mouth of the Dart Estuary in Devon.
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Highclere Castle is home to an Egyptian Exhibition, founded by the 5th Earl who discovered the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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Built for Henry VIII between 1539 and 1540, Deal Castle was constructed as a fortress to protect against invasion from France & Spain.
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Deddington Castle was built on a Saxon site as a motte and bailey castle in the 11th century by Bishop Odo of Bayeux.
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