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 | Blaise Castle is an 18th century mansion house and estate near Henbury in Bristol (formerly in Gloucestershire), England. Blaise Castle was immortalised by being described as "the finest place in England" in Jane Austen's book Northanger Abbey (a remark uttered by the most annoying and worthless character in the novel, however).
More information:http://en.wikipedia.org/wi... |  | 07/07/2006 | 448 | 
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 | Sudeley Castle is a castle located near Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England. It dates from the 10th century, but the inhabited portion is chiefly Elizabethan. The castle has a notable garden, which is designed and maintained to a very high standard. The chapel, St. Mary's Sudeley, is the burial place of Queen Catherine Parr (c. 1512–1548), the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, and contains her ma... |  | 09/18/2009 | 35 |
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 | Described as the "Key to England" Dover Castle defended the shortest sea crossing between England and the continent for almost one thousand years. | | 03/26/2007 | 302 |
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 | Here's a group of placemarks for Haunted locations in and around Ontario Canada. The list is ever growing and will be updated in the future. Included are folders for each city/town and when possible a brief writeup on the history of the site and a photo. | | 11/04/2006 | 14,138 |
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 | Built in XVIIth century, The old castle was pulled down in 1764 and a new one was erected and doubled in size at the same place in 1782.
This new castle was pulled down again at the end of XIXth century and the place was forgotten for a while.
It then revived when a 3rd castle was built just nearby in 1849 for duke of Uzés by architects Froelicher and Clément Parent. This new plac... | | 01/15/2006 | 172 |
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 | Corfe Castle situated in a gap in the Purbeck Hills in Dorset, England.
The medieval castle guards the only easy route through the hills. |  | 02/01/2007 | 212 |
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 | Great Britain - England East area castle - (to be added in related folder to "historical castles" file) | | 02/28/2006 | 177 |
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 | Great Britain - England East area castle - (to be added in related folder to "historical castles" file) | | 02/28/2006 | 152 |
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 | Originally as a place of refuge for the inhabitants of the nearby knight's estate the castle construction was built at the end of the 12th century.
From 1512 to 1519 the castle was converted into a Renaisance Water-surrounded castle and a moat and a huge water canal system was built. | | 09/09/2006 | 235 |
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 | Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world, is one of the official residences of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Since William the Conqueror built the first castle in 1080, its proximity to both London and the old royal hunting forest (now Windsor Great Park) made it popular as a royal residence.
Over the centuries many kings have lived at Windsor, adding or altering buildi... | | 10/22/2005 | 523 |
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 | In 1385, Edward Dalyngrigge, a future royal adviser and veteran of the wars with France, receipt the permission of the king to build a castle on its manor of Bodiam. The building which it built, although maintaining a ruin, is one of the castles most celebrated in England. It is visited each year by more than 170.000 people, and the images of its walls and turns, peacefully reflected in water o... | | 12/28/2005 | 135 |
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 | Castle Friedrichshof, today the Schlosshotel Kronberg, was built 1889 by Empress Victoria. She lived here until 1901 and made this place a center of hospitality with her charme and her liberal attitude.
The Empress Frederick, founder of this house, was the widow of Frederick III, King of Prussia and German Emperor, and mother of William II, familiar to the world as the Kaiser. Sh... |  | 09/25/2005 | 658 |
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