Exploring Castles

12/11/2015

Deceptively mighty: Stokesay Castle, a fortified manor house in Shropshire, England. (David Evans, Flickr)

09/11/2015

Ludlow Castle - one of the Medieval castles on the border between England and Wales. (Credit: Ed Jeavons, Flickr)

31/10/2015

Happy Halloween! A 'mad scientist', Joseph Konrad Dippel, once lived at Burg Frankenstein, Germany. His ghoulish experiments included resurrecting the dead - and might have inspired the novel Frankenstein....

22/10/2015

For the ghost hunters out there, there’s one apparition who’s said to haunt a number of castles and stately homes in England.

30/09/2015

Who do you think murdered the princes in the Tower of London? Was it really King Richard? http://www.exploring-castles.com/princes_in_the_tower.html

Discover the murder mystery of the Princes in the Tower of London, one of the great puzzles of British history. Who were the suspects - and who do you believe did it?

28/09/2015

I didn't get nipped by a raven when I visited the Tower of London last week ;) Discover more: http://www.exploring-castles.com/tower_of_london_history.html

10/06/2015

I know it's not a castle, but it's undeniably very English! I visited Snowshill Manor, in the Cotswolds, last Friday.

It's a beautiful old manor, built of warm coloured local stone, filled with eccentric collectibles.

The gardens boast a dove-cote. Well worth a visit!

20/05/2015

Nine Things You Probably Didn't Know About English Castles!:

Editor's Note: The following was a contribution from Dr. Edd Morris, the author of the recently released book Exploring English Castles. From the grandest fortresses to long-forgotten ruins, I’ve always loved exploring English castles. What fascinates me is how these fortresses - once the strongest, mightiest and grandest buildings in the whole of England - are now reduced to jagged remains. [ 1193 more words. ]

15/05/2015

Beautiful photo :)

Threave Castle, Dumfries and Galloway - Scotland

03/05/2015

Hello from Dublin Castle - enjoying a (brief) sunny moment!

29/04/2015

Interested on castles with Tudor connections (like Kenilworth, pictured)? Check out my guest blog On The Tudor Trail!:

Exploring English Castles - A guest post by Dr Edd Morris. Happy armchair travelling! http://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2015/04/29/exploring-english-castles-by-edd-morris/

21/04/2015

Calling castle lovers! I'm really excited that my just-released coffee table hardback has been chosen as 'Book of the Day' by English Historical Fiction Authors. Check out their review with excerpts! :) http://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/exploring-english-castles.html

I enjoyed your post immensely. Living in Canada and having never visited the British Isles, I suppose I have a rather romanticized version in my head of castles but to visit one in person is on my bucket list!

16/03/2015

Is this the world's most perfect shell-keep castle? Restormel in Cornwall, England. (Robert Pittman)

10/03/2015

King John wanted Alnwick Castle destroyed: happily his orders were never followed! Who's been lucky enough to visit? (Photo: Matthew Hartley)

26/02/2015

Carlisle Castle - positioned on the Scottish/English border, it's been a place of perpetual conflict... (Photo by PaulMB, Flickr)

23/02/2015

Any Game of Thrones fans? Dunluce Castle, Ireland, is used as a setting for some scenes in the TV show. (Bonus points if you know which house lives here!). (Photo by Damian Entwistle)

16/02/2015

It's time for an under-appreciated castle! Chepstow, Wales: founded in 1067 and balanced above the River Wye (Photo by Ed Webster, Flickr)

12/02/2015

Ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, North England. Has anybody else hiked to the castle before? (Photo by Gail Johnson, Flickr).

09/02/2015

One of my photos from Carew Castle, Wales, last Summer... anyone else wishing they were back on holiday?! :)

13/11/2014

Kasteel de Haar, in the Netherlands, is spectacular. And an entire village got demolished to make way for it!

My photos and trip report are here: http://www.exploring-castles.com/kasteel_de_haar.html

28/10/2014

Which is the creepiest castle in the UK?

I've been speaking to The Huffington Post to select 10 of the spookiest....

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/10/22/10-creepy-castles-in-uk_n_5906876.html

Halloween isn’t complete without a trip to a spooky castle – the scarier, the better. And things can only get creepier when there’s a promise that “like a ghastly rapid river, through the pale door, a hideous throng rush out f...

11/08/2014

Today, I've been visiting Carew Castle in Wales - an old Norman fortress which became a Tudor palace. It's spectacular - I'll upload more shortly!

07/07/2014

The Tour de France passed by beautiful, double-moated Helmsley Castle yesterday. Check out these photos! (Thanks to Gary P for the spot).

Anyone ever visited Helmsley/other castles in Yorkshire?