So, castles, battles, divine countryside, endless beaches, a rock god - and an almost alien power station. 1066 country has got ’em all, and there aren’t many other parts of Britain who could ...

The English Castle: 1066-1650 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) John Goodall (Author) Yale University Press. 480 pages. $75.00 ...

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 ...

After the castle was abandoned, Dr Jamieson said it was possible local villagers took the stone to use elsewhere. The area was controlled by the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, Harald Godwinson, and ...

When William I assumed the crown in England following his victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, he deployed motte-and-bailey castles to consolidate his rule.

Henry II's keep: There has been a castle in Dover since the defences of an Anglo-Saxon fortress were strengthened by William of Normandy, who built the first earthwork castle in 1066 before moving ...

When the Normans arrived in Southampton in 1066, they built a castle on high ground at the confluence of the rivers Test and the Itchen. It was… ...

When William I assumed the crown in England following his victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, he deployed motte-and-bailey castles to consolidate his rule.

This small market town of Eye in Suffolk is steeped in history from across the ages, and has a range of places to visit to eat and drink too.

Find out what the first Scottish castles were like and who built them with this BBC Bitesize Scotland article for P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7 - First and Second Level CfE ...