castle – Page 5 – Meditations

March 13, 2018

North Elmham Priory & Castle

I really enjoyed visiting North Elmham. The site can be summed up as the vision of two very different people, Bishops Herbert de Losinga…

March 7, 2018

Much can be said about this site, but in reality the massive earthworks present astound one’s mind and are, therefore, indescribable. The image here…

February 28, 2018

Cambridge is not well known for its fortification and it shouldn’t be. The castle here is long gone with bare marks on the ground…

February 21, 2018

Edinburgh is a castle most everyone knows about. This, paradoxically, also makes me like it less, and that especially after having been through the…

February 17, 2018

Craigmillar is a beast. It’s unlucky for it that a far more well known place is located within only a few miles, and that…

February 10, 2018

Brough was an interesting and imposing locale. That the site has been occupied in one way or another since the Roman period (if not…

February 7, 2018

Brougham is one I was only able to see from afar; the place is closed during the week over winter, and that’s a shame….

February 3, 2018

Cadzow is one of these places where the intervening centuries have left a considerable mark. Perhaps this is not even so obvious to the…

January 27, 2018

One of these places where some masonry might remain, but the strictly private nature of the grounds it is located on doesn’t quite allow…

January 20, 2018

Horsford is one of these Norfolk places which doesn’t really exist any more except in the mindset of its visitors. It would be very…