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Map of Caernarfon in 1610 by John Speed, a classic example of a castle town. A castle town is a settlement built adjacent to or surrounding a castle. Castle towns were common in Medieval Europe. Some examples include small towns like Alnwick and Arundel, which are still dominated by their castles.
The small medieval castle is also partially reconstructed and the whole area of Havránok is now an open-air museum. The site was proclaimed a national cultural monument in 1967. The site was proclaimed a national cultural monument in 1967.
Ightham Mote (/ ˈ aɪ t əm ˈ m oʊ t /), at Ightham, is a medieval moated manor house in Kent, England. The architectural writer John Newman describes it as "the most complete small medieval manor house in the county". [1] Ightham Mote and its gardens are owned by the National Trust and are open to the public.
Arnside Tower, a late-medieval pele tower in Cumbria Smailholm Tower near Kelso in Scotland Preston Tower, Northumberland. Peel towers (also spelt pele) [1] are small fortified keeps or tower houses, built along the English and Scottish borders in the Scottish Marches and North of England, mainly between the mid-14th century and about 1600. [2]
Kisimul Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Chiosmuil) [1] and also known as Kiessimul Castle, [2] is a medieval castle located on a small island off Castlebay, Barra, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. It gets its name from the Norse ciosamul , meaning "castle island".
Peveril Castle (also Castleton Castle or Peak Castle) [3] is a ruined 11th-century castle overlooking the village of Castleton in the English county of Derbyshire.It was the main settlement (or caput) of the feudal barony of William Peverel, known as the Honour of Peverel, [4] and was founded some time between the Norman Conquest of 1066 and its first recorded mention in the Domesday Survey of ...
A 1583 map of Pembrokeshire shows the castle on the west bank of the Eastern Cleddau (Clethy), [6] and George Owen mentions it in 1603. The waterway was busy until recent times. [5] The castle is said to have been held and damaged in the Civil War, falling into ruin thereafter. [7]: 348 [5] Richard Fenton, in his 1811 Historical Tour, says:
In the 21st century, the castle is managed by English Heritage as a tourist attraction, receiving 15,164 visitors in 2015. The historian John Goodall considers the site to be an "outstanding example of a late medieval castle", with its grounds forming "one of the best-preserved and most important" examples of an early Tudor garden.