#CastleSaturday & never a bad time to see Corfe Castle

We caught more of it as part of an extended walk across Dorset which you can catch here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r994...

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A painting of the Esplanade, Edinburgh Castle in about 1846-7 by David Octavius Hill (1802-1870). National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. That canon that the child is sitting on is still there.
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#CastleSaturday with the utterly beautiful Pembroke Castle

see more of Pembrokeshire in the episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1nh...

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The sharp eyed among you may have noticed that there's a 3rd castle missing from this thread - but thats something for the next episode, next week 😉

in the meantime do check the playlist for more castles, church crawling & all sorts >>>
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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a few more from Dryslwyn

Its a small thing but the fact that both of these castles are free to visit
with prices rising everywhere & things as simple as a train ride feel like a total rip off, a cruel joke at our expense

the fact you can go and experience these gratis 😊

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Its not entirely clear when exactly it was built thought its believe to be from around the 1220's
possibly by Rhys Gryg who may have built the two castles of Dryslwyn and Dinefwr to pass to his sons after his death
which came in 1234

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This is Castell Dryslwyn, & you can just see with line of sight to Dinefwr in the distance

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Now this is Dinefwr from around 4 miles away (though you'd be hard pushed to see it)
but this was taken from the battlements of...

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Here's a few more from around the inner courtyard & tower

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Whats particularly impressive about Dinefwr is the views it offers of the Towy floodplain below, as well as the miles and miles of glorious welsh landscape

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there was a welsh castle built here in later c12 but the masonry visible now is from early c13 onwards

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Well, Wales really does spoil you for castles, and while there's any number we could discuss - i've particularly had my heart stolen by these in Carmarthenshire
beginning with this: Castell Dinefwr

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#CastleSaturday & there's an incredible pair of castles i'd like to talk about from Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
& think it could use a small 🧵👇 to do it

Edinburgh Castle. Research has identified 26 sieges in its 1,100-year history, giving it a claim to having been ‘the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world’.
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The 11c castle of Peyrepertuse in the Corbières: the largest of the castles known as "Five Sons of Carcassonne" & a Cathar stronghold during the Albigensian Crusade. It was then taken over by the King of France and became a key defence against the Kingdom of Aragon #castlesaturday

Black and white photograph of a crenellated round tower, almost in silhouette against the sky. In the upper third of the frame, that sky is clear, but the lower two thirds are clouded; bright sunlight illuminates the boundary. The tower itself is rather squat, designed for defence against artillery, and to provide an artillery firing platform at its upper level.

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#CastleSaturday with Peveril Castle, Castleton in the Peak Distrcit

See more of the Peak District in the new episode >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ta4...

Brougham Castle near Penrith in Cumbria was founded in the early 13th century. The site was previously used by the Romans for a fort called Brocavum.
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Tantalion N Berwick

speaking of Corfe Castle
Still don't quite believe this one, few years back by complete fluke i panned the camera up and captured *the most Dorset scene ever™ *
no chance i'd ever be able to recreate this 😩

See some cozy pubs at Corfe Castle here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kav...

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#CastleSaturday with Corfe Castle, Dorset
Have photographed this many times over the years, but felt really good to be back

We were on a minor pub crawl seeing some of Dorsets Cosiest pubs, you can catch that here >>>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kav...