Castles Of Britain

Here are a few well-known castles that we haven't covered in the usual visits. Early Brits didn't get along with each other so now there are castles everywhere. Some castles were also palaces or royal residences. 

Castles are usually away from cities. There were castles in cities, as well as walls around the cities, but when times change and the castle is no longer needed they often get dismantled as a source of building stone. The castles away from cities are more likely to remain.

The exception is the castles in cities that were also palaces, or connected with royalty, and are thus very important to national heritage, such as Edinburgh Castle and the Tower of London.

There was a fascination with medieval castles in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. See "When The Middle Ages Returned", October 2025.

All images are from Google Earth or Street View.

England's Warwick Castle began as a wooden Norman fort that was later rebuilt in stone.

England's Bamburgh Castle, on the northeast coast, was once the capital of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria.

Wales' Caernarfon Castle is at the northwest corner of Wales. This castle has been in a lot of actual warfare. This is one of several castles built by Edward I after he gained control of Wales.

Scotland's Stirling Castle was built on a crag much like Edinburgh Castle.

Unlike the others here, Scotland's Balmoral Castle is not an actual medieval castle. It was built much later and is now a royal residence. Queen Elizabeth II died here in 2022.