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This castle was begun in the late 1000s, it is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. It is a Norman motte and bailey castle.

A timber motte and bailey castle was built on this site by William the Conqueror in 1069-70, after the 'harrying of the North'. It rebuilt in stone between 1180 and 1236.

This is the site of a Norman motte and bailey castle. The original timber castle was replaced with a stone one in 1200s.

This castle was built in the 1000s by the Normans, it is on the same site as an earlier Roman fort.

This castle was built in 1277 by Edward I, the site itself had been in use from much earlier and is mentioned in 1086.

This site in Dover had been used as an Iron Age Hillfort, the location for a Roman lighthouse and by Anglo-Saxon church builders before William the Conqueror chose it as a site for a castle in 1066

There has been a castle here since at least the 1100s and probably much earlier. The first written record is from 1110, when king Alexander I dedicated a chapel at the castle.

There has been a castle on this site in Edinburgh since at least the reign of David the first in the 1100s.

The first stone castle was built here in the 1200s. It became a royal castle in 1377.

When I was kid Beaumont Leys was where the massive swimming pool with water slides and a wave machine was - a real treat!