Awesome thread, love visiting castles. Always disappointing not being able to wander around and explore though. Keep ’em coming.

Durham (cos I’m a Durham lad) but the Cathedral’s better.

Bamburgh.
Eileann Donan.
Alnwick.
Lindisfarne.
Can’t believe no ones mentioned Raby Castle…
[url=https://flic.kr/p/nFAh2z]raby-castle-2[/url] by jimmyg352, on Flickr

Glamis.
Stalker.
Urquhart.
Tioram.

Eileen Donan
Hever – compact simplicity

(Inverlochy 😉 )

White Castle.

Free stroke with every platter (allegedly).

Always had a real soft spot for Ewloe, I think the location has an amazing feel

The Welsh coastal castles like Harlech are amazing – though I’m even more in love with Palmerston forts…

Tioram, Kilchurn and Dunadd are my favorites.

Usk.

Modest, but with a history to match many more imposing ones.

And I can see it from my back window!

Hehe, as a medieval reenactor i got to stay in a lot of fantastic castles all weekend for free. When the public went home we had the castles to ourselves – the giant shadow sex puppet show at Tutbury Castle was quite memorable..

Castle Custodian “Thats disgusting, where is your group captain?”

drunken reenactors “up there in front of those giant spotlights making shadow puppets” 😆

Was just coming on to say Kilchurn but notice I’ve been beaten to it

Langley Castle, near Hexham. I got married there 🙂
not in winter mind

Langley castle is on the A686 isn’t it? Nice road.

Stokesay Castle, just south of Craven Arms on the A49 in Shropshire. Lovely place in almost perfect condition.

Oh and not really a castle I suppose, but I used to walk past this place whenever I stayed with my Nan in Jaywick, it’s a Martello Tower, pretty sure we went in once but mostly shut tight.

Not as impressive as others, but I spent many Saturdays in my younger years messing around at Bunratty, just outside Limerick on the way to Shannon…there used to be a shneaky way in for us youngsters and nobody ever seemed bothered that we were there.

Mugdock castle is a nice spot for a rest on a sunny day after a run on the bike.

Najac Castle in France. Loved it there, beautiful place.

Bouillon castle in the south of Belgium. I can’t find an image that really does it justice but when you go in it just feels like you want an old castle to be and has all the requisite long corridors, wells & dungeons.

Colchester castle 2nd largest Norman keep in England after the tower of London

Has to be my local one. Tamworth Castle. Nowt special but I spent hours mooching round there when I was a nipper. Fascinating place.

Arundel Castle as it always looks so picturesque first thing in the morning when I pass it on the way to work.

I’m always impressed with the Tower of London. Had a great tour with a yeoman last year, I would go again without a doubt

Castle

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Not in Leeds

Yes it is. Just not in Leeds, West Yorks.

It’s always fun when visitors ask where the castle is.

Can we have star forts?

Stokesay is rather lovely
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokesay_Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokesay

I’ve had a real fondness for Llansteffan Castle, near Carmarthen. Used to holiday down there, and I’d spend hours wandering around the castle, or just sitting on the sea-ward wall; it’s so low in one point you can sit on it resting your feet on the ground outside. Great view across the Taff and the Tywi, across to Laugharne, Dylan Thomas’s Boat House, and the furthest end of Pendine Sands. The other side of the Taff there are live firing ranges, amazing noise from A-10 Warthogs using their rotary cannon.

Although not terribly impregnable

Only just pipping the great Curwen castle to be my fave is
Brough castle near Penrith on the A66. We went there on a school trip ,on a lovely sunny day ( a rarity during my schooltrips) , when I was 13.We pretended to be knights ,flirted with girls on the bus and had pop& crisps.Oh,and Miss bollocked us because we went for a paddle in the river….. 😀

top thread.

not a great castle just a nice peaceful place to visit (and free 🙂 ) and picnic sheltered by Cadair Idris…. Castell y Bere.

would have to be edinburgh castle (due to my grandfather being born in edinburgh).

love the fact that one of the main selling point is it has it’s own Tavern

[url=https://flic.kr/p/9xNoRU]Castell y Gwynt[/url] by msh_sco, on Flickr

The Cathar castles in the Pyrenees are all pretty special but Montsegur has to be the pick of them. The last place to fall during the AlbigensianCrusade, hundreds of people held out in a castle the size of a football pitch for nine months before surrendering. Most of the survivors walked voluntarily into a pyre rather than convert to catholicism. Lots of Grail/Ark legends connected to the place as well.
Really amazing place.

castillo de belmonte used for the backdrop for the trial by combat scene in El Cid (currently on iplayer for fans of a pouty Sophia Loren)

I was going to put Castell y Bere on here, so well done Klunk. A great castle and as you say in a beautiful, peaceful place.
Also a great starting place for a ride up Cader Idris.

The Cathar castles in the Pyrenees are all pretty special but Montsegur has to be the pick of them.

The only problem with Montsegur is that the castle that’s there now is from the 17th century rather than the original which was torn down. I’m a fan of Peyreperteuse which as far as I remember is original

Castle Rushen in the Isle of Man – one of the best preserved in Britain as a local let the Roundheads in during the Civil War. Later hanged by the Brits …

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And Peel Castle – another adopted viking site…. Come to the TT and see thjem too!

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Real Castle – Arundel.

Massive history from the Normans onwards
Amazing interiors (still very much in use by Duke of Norfolk – a somewhat expensive place to maintain!)
Beautiful gardens

Utterly made up castle

Mystery Castle in Phantasialand

drop tower, in the dark, with a light show. awesome

TM