Castles

Salzburg is a city in Austria and the capital of an Austrian state of the same name. Burg Hohenwerfen is a castle in Salzburg dating back to the 11th century.

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Rochester Castle stands 113 feet high and has a long history of destruction followed by rebuilding. The castle consists of three floors and a basement below. In addition, a tall fore building is attached. The fore building has its own defence system even before the castle keep itself is entered on the first floor level. To view photographs of Rochester Castle, see the related links section further down this page.

Morlais Castle - Merthyr Tydfil.

Morlais come from mawr meaning great and glais, stream, and so means great stream.

Today the ruined Morlais Castle still commands a fine view, it is situated two miles north of Merthyr Tydfil on a limestone escarpment overlooking the Taf Fechan.

Morlais Castle, was probably built on the site of a former iron-age fort. There The remaining ruins of the castle, consisting mainly of the debris of the towers and the crypt, can still be seen today.

Originally Morlais Castle was built around 1270 by the Earl of Gloucester and Lord of Glamorgan, Gilbert de Clare. Its construction at the farthest reaches of his lands shows that he was probably planning raids into Vaynor and intending to try to take lands from Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Lord of Brecknock. It is thought that the castle was never properly finished. The violent dispute between these two Earls over the construction of Morlais Castle caused Edward I to intervene and put both in the Tower of London. The King himself did not want Morlais castle to be an important stronghold on the boundary between Glamorgan and Brecknock. and he asserted his Royal control over these two powerful Norman Lords

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Dover castle was attacked by French troops that first assaulted the castle and then dug tunnels underneath it trying to get in.

the white tower in London happens to be it :)

At the bottom of the castle or outside. Just depends on what it was used for.

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I have seen an estimate that Conwy Castle cost 15,000 pounds to build. At the time, a cottage rented for 5 shillings per year, and a master craftsman's house rented for 20 shillings, or one pound, for a year.

it was more safer and secure than the other castles.

windsor castle

There were roughly about 69 battles at Edinburgh Castle. One of them involved all the warriors fighting naked.

The castle stood king over the town below

a moat that is a wide ditch filled with water

Hedingham is typical of English castles since it was really two (perhaps three) different castles built on the same site.

The original, first castle was a simple motte-and-bailey built by Sir Aubrey de Vere in about 1100. This included no stone in its construction, simply ditches, earth banks and timber palisades and towers. It had two baileys and a large earth mound (the motte).

In about 1130 the central donjon or tower was rebuilt in stone and a stone gatehouse, hall and towers were added (only the central tower survives today).

The link below shows a modern reconstruction of how the second castle looked in about 1130 - 1140. Notice that anyone approaching the gatehouse had to pass within bowshot of the walls of the inner bailey.

Stone.

because they could afford it

Quite alot of ghost have been seen loitering round the castle. Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn have been seen... Not together ofcourse. Elizabeth I has been seen in the library. Charles I is also sighted, as well as George Viliers, who was the Duke Of Buckingham under Charles I (they were possible lovers). There is a thought that a royalist prisoner haunting the Norman Tower, as well as a young boy often heard to be yelling "I don't want to go riding today" elsewhere in the castle. There is also the ghost of a guard who commited suicide in the castle in the 1920s.

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square stone keep castle

well, during the night yes, obviously. but during the day many areas of a castle would have been fairly well lit by natural sunlight entering through windows or simply areas of the castle that didn't have a roof. Other, more secure places such as a dungeon or maybe a storage room for weapons or resources probably were fairly dark at all times of the day and you would have needed torches to illuminate them.

It's quite easy to tell if any place is haunted.

It isn't

This depends on the type of castle. All castles were built as fortifications against military action, but who lived there depended on the location and purpose of the fortification. Some castles - usually those located within major cities - were actually keeps inside larger fortifications. They were intended to house troops and store material needed to defend an entire city against attack. These often doubled as palaces for kings or local rulers, and would house the ruler's family, important advisers, as well as elite soldiers. Other castles - usually in more rural, agricultural areas - served to house regional lords and their troops. These were used as retreats for farmers and villagers in the case of attack, and as bases for troops defending those regions of the kingdom. Still other castles were strategic in nature - placed in remote passes or unpopulated regions - to give advanced warning of approaching enemies and establish a bottleneck to contain foes until the main body of troops could be notified, gathered, and dispatched to the region. These normally only contained soldiers in relatively small numbers, though they could be put into service to house nobility for the purposes of negotiations or treaties.