Spent the day at Charles Fort, Kinsale, which has seriously messed with my Top 5 Castles.
1. Pendennis
2. Charles Fort
3. Beaumaris
4. Dartmouth
5. Middleham
Dover just got knocked off the list.
Yours?
Findlater
Bodiam. Romantic and beautiful.
Guildford, because no one knows guildford has a castle and assume that it’s a town like basingstoke or swindon.
Findlater
Not Castle Remsof? 😉
Harlech is pretty impressive.
But in reality, Dunstanburgh in winter:
Eden
Maine XXXX
Takeshi's castle.
harlich and Conway !!
Given I lived in it for three years* I have to say Durham Castle
https://www.universityrooms.com/en-GB/city/durham/college/durhamcastle#PhotosPopup
* not really, I only had meals and social life in it for two, I only actually got to live in it for one (on Hall stairs, right next to the Great Hall). There's a Hall stairs room in the link above, mine didn't overlook the courtyard, rather the other way over the River Wear and Framwellgate Bridge.... hopefully this link works
https://maps.app.goo.gl/QgqBmfEgmU3CTRgk8
Torn between Ed Sheeran and Freya Ridings.
Amongst many others .. .. White Castle
https://cadw.gov.wales/visit/places-to-visit/white-castle
on Offas Dyke north of Monmouth. Impressive fortifications.
@andy4d excellent, but Freya takes it!
So many in Scotland but Edinburgh built on the rock and from the West or South looks impenetrable or fxxking hard to get in
Balvaird , Tantallon or Fast castle
You may notice I'm on the East side
Came here to say Hermitage but beaten to it, properly imposing
And then I remembered my visit to Fenestrelle, absolutely mind blowing. Was there after it had closed for the day, just went for a walk. Looked like a posh house at the bottom, then a bit above that, and then some above that, and some more walls and drawbridges and more castle, I kept walking and walking up the hill and there were more and more levels of fortifications to retreat into. I did get in, actually quite easy when the drawbridges are down and there's no one shooting at you.
Kinda liked Caerphily cos it was just over the hill from me at uni.
The tower leans more than the leaning tower of Pisa.
Cardiff Castle and the little folly castle of Castell Coch (just north of Cardiff) were regular haunts during my time at uni too.
Also, it should be a requirement of this thread to post a pic of the castle in question.
Here's Castell Coch, also known as the Fairytale Castle for obvious reasons. There was good MTBing in thewoods around there, really quite steep in places!
Barbara
Königstein
Bastei
Chambord
Bodiam, because it looks like a proper castle and has a most and a trebuchet that was used to actually kill ducks and everything.
Dunrobin
Surprising location.
Also, it should be a requirement of this thread to post a pic of the castle in question.
I've tried, but it's not gone well ...
Mad ludwigs castle in Bavaria
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Oh ffs
+1 Roy
+1 Barbara
Blarney Castle.
Takes a bit of immagination, but fast castle is quite the spot.
Small craggy real castles.
Edinburgh castle is a shite castle. Its a walled barracks. Stirling is a far more castly castle if you want to go crag and tail.
I vote Bodiam, like many other voters here...
Bodiam is pretty cool. [La-De-Dah]Saw a production of A Mid Summer Night's Dream in it one evening last summer [/La-De-Dah]
Blarney tomorrow for us. Will it further mess with my top 5?
Lancaster is quite nice but has a interesting history
Edinburgh castle is a shite castle. Its a walled barracks.
Nottingham Castle is also a shit castle. It's supposed to be all Robin Hood and dastardly sheriff and it's actually a manor house built in the late 1800's - admittedly on the site of the famed Norman castle but not remotely castle-like.
On which note, Carcassonne is stunning. It was "Nottingham Castle" in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.
Caleveloch
Garlies castke
Beeston
Got kicked out of the pub quiz... they asked what famous castle suffered smoke damage in the 80s.
Turns out Roy wasn't the right answer
St Briavels because I stayed in it on one of my first weekends with the Southern Section CTC.
Blois, a lot learned.
Pau, I visited with in-laws I remember fondly, and I've run through the grounds hundreds of times.
Amboise, junior loved the Da Vinci garden.
