A five-year renovation has transformed an 11th-century castle into the UK’s most accessible heritage attraction.

Thousands of visitors flock to UK castles each year, some with links to Harry Potter, others with a long history of sieges, but for two archaeologists from the University of York, the site of what was ...

Rising up from the rolling Yorkshire landscape, it is an unusual hill thought to have been built by the Norman conquerors as they tried to subdue England after the Battle of Hastings. For centuries, ...

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Berkhamsted Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and one of English Heritage's 400 historic sites The site where William the Conqueror received the English surrender is to become "complete" once ...

The astonishing beauty of Cardiff Castle in the Welsh capital is pictured from inside its grounds as the majestic main building takes centre stage. Wales is often called the 'Land of Castles' and has ...

Stroud, Eng.: Tempus Publishing/Chicago, IPG, 2006. Pp. 256. Illus., maps, diagr., tables, biblio., index. $37.95 paper. ISBN: 0752436511 A Few Well-Positioned ...

From Anglesey to the shadow of the Severn Bridge, Wales is a nation criss-crossed with castles. With some estimates suggesting in the medieval period there was one castle for every 12 square miles, it ...