Shortly after invading England in 1066, William the Conqueror began consolidating power. Building castles was a primary means of asserting dominance and over the proceeding 150 years William and his ...

A luxurious tower built for Henry I—William the Conqueror’s son—is opening to the public for the first time in nearly four centuries. Constructed around 1107, the royal residence is located within the ...

Soar over Corfe Castle, United Kingdom, where the jagged, thousand-year-old ruins of the Bankes family's fortress stand as a ...

Visitors can now explore the King's Tower at Corfe Castle in Dorset, England, for the first time in nearly 400 years. A new stairway installed inside the keep allows visitors to see up close the ...

A two-month conservation project to repair the ruins of a medieval castle in Dorset has started. Holes in the stonework of Corfe Castle will be filled by hand using a syringe containing lime mortar.

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Find out why I always return to this neck of the woods every autumn WHEN Corfe Castle was besieged during the English Civil War, little else surrounded it bar rolling countryside and a narrow river ...

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MOVIE legend Edward Fox has officially opened the new Corfe Castle Community Library. More than 100 people attended a ceremony and Champagne reception to mark the milestone occasion yesterday. The Day ...