Favourite Castle

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?

Roy

Findlater

Hermitage castle because it’s a proper fortress.

Bodiam. Romantic and beautiful.

Castle Anthrax

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.

Castle Grayskull

But in reality, Dunstanburgh in winter:

Popped in this one after Friday ride

Eden

Maine XXXX

Takeshi’s castle.

harlich and Conway !!

Llanstephan has a lovely setting, As does Goodrich.

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

Cloppa Castle

Tintagel

Corfe Castle.

Happy memories of my spell in the foster system as a yoof, spend a few years there with some truly amazing people.

New

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

Tioram.End of…..

I wasn’t expecting tiny Castle Roy to get so many likes …

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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.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2REH8GC/aerial-view-of-the-fenestrelle-fortress-watching-over-chisone-valley-orsiera-rocciavre-park-chisone-valley-turin-piedmont-italy-2REH8GC.jpg

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?