A PANORAMIC VIEW OF CAERPHILLY CASTLE WALES. THE CASTLE IS THE UK'S SECOND LARGEST XASTLE AFTER WINDSOR. BUILDING OF THE CASTLE BEGAN IN 1268 AND AGAIN IN 1271 AFTER AN ATTACK BY LLEYWELYN THE LAST, AGAINST WHOM IT WAS CONSTRUCTED. THE CASTLE LIES WITHIN THE TOWN OF CAERPHILLY, FAMOS FOR ITS CHEESE AMD IS IN THE COUNTY OF GLAMRGAN, WALES, UK.
RESIDENT GEESE AT CAERPHILLY CASTLE WALES. THE CASTLE IS THE UK'S SECOND LARGEST XASTLE AFTER WINDSOR. BUILDING OF THE CASTLE BEGAN IN 1268 AND AGAIN IN 1271 AFTER AN ATTACK BY LLEYWELYN THE LAST, AGAINST WHOM IT WAS CONSTRUCTED. THE CASTLE LIES WITHIN THE TOWN OF CAERPHILLY, FAMOS FOR ITS CHEESE AMD IS IN THE COUNTY OF GLAMRGAN, WALES, UK.
RESIDENT GEESE AT CAERPHILLY CASTLE WALES. THE CASTLE IS THE UK'S SECOND LARGEST XASTLE AFTER WINDSOR. BUILDING OF THE CASTLE BEGAN IN 1268 AND AGAIN IN 1271 AFTER AN ATTACK BY LLEYWELYN THE LAST, AGAINST WHOM IT WAS CONSTRUCTED. THE CASTLE LIES WITHIN THE TOWN OF CAERPHILLY, FAMOS FOR ITS CHEESE AMD IS IN THE COUNTY OF GLAMRGAN, WALES, UK.
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Description
The remains of the south transept and library of Much Wenlock Priory, Shropshire. Once one of the finest monastic churches in the country, it was founded in the 12th century.
ROMANTIC COUPLE ON BENCH IN FRONT OF CAERPHILLY CASTLE WALES. THE CASTLE IS THE UK'S SECOND LARGEST XASTLE AFTER WINDSOR. BUILDING OF THE CASTLE BEGAN IN 1268 AND AGAIN IN 1271 AFTER AN ATTACK BY LLEYWELYN THE LAST, AGAINST WHOM IT WAS CONSTRUCTED. THE CASTLE LIES WITHIN THE TOWN OF CAERPHILLY, FAMOS FOR ITS CHEESE AMD IS IN THE COUNTY OF GLAMRGAN, WALES, UK.
COUPLE ON BENCH AT CAERPHILLY CASTLE WALES. THE CASTLE IS THE UK'S SECOND LARGEST CASTLE AFTER WINDSOR. BUILDING OF THE CASTLE BEGAN IN 1268 AND AGAIN IN 1271 AFTER AN ATTACK BY LLEYWELYN THE LAST, AGAINST WHOM IT WAS CONSTRUCTED. THE CASTLE LIES WITHIN THE TOWN OF CAERPHILLY, FAMOS FOR ITS CHEESE AMD IS IN THE COUNTY OF GLAMRGAN, WALES, UK.
THE MOAT AND PART OF THE TOWN AT CAERPHILLY CASTLE WALES. THE CASTLE IS THE UK'S SECOND LARGEST XASTLE AFTER WINDSOR. BUILDING OF THE CASTLE BEGAN IN 1268 AND AGAIN IN 1271 AFTER AN ATTACK BY LLEYWELYN THE LAST, AGAINST WHOM IT WAS CONSTRUCTED. THE CASTLE LIES WITHIN THE TOWN OF CAERPHILLY, FAMOUS FOR ITS CHEESE AMD IS IN THE COUNTY OF GLAMRGAN, WALES, UK.
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Description
One of the turrets of Corfe Castle in Dorset, England. Construction of the castle was begun in the early 12th Century AD by King Henry 1, son of William the Conqueror.
Leeds castle looking from the gatehouse to the main building. The door is open and guests are walking round the main green. The day is overcast and the clouds are gray creating a mystic and dark perspective to the turreted building.
Windsor Castle in late Victorian period, c1900. From an uncredited photo in an undated Edwardian book. The introduction to the book says pictures were taken by permission of the Queen and landowners, but later refers to 'our King', so the photo dates from around 1900.
A fortified palace of the bishops of St Davids, first created as a ringwork in the twelfth century and totally rebuilt mainly in the fourteenth century. OS map 158: SN 073175