The castles, towers and fortified buildings of Cumbria

Round Hill Kendal Cumbria Now this site has been causing some confusion for a number of years now. The Pastscape website sites the 'mott...

Cunswick Hall Nr Kendal Cumbria A lthough Cunswick Hall, along with the fortified tower that was here up until around 1582, was demolished,...

Martello Towers Jersey A nother small collection of photos of towers on the island of Jersey has found its way to me....this time courtesy ...

Kendal Race Course Kendal Cumbria The remains of Kendal Race Course are to be found to the West of Kendal, at the foot of Scout Scar. There ...

Rispain Camp Near Whithorn Dumfries and Galloway During the 1950s, as Rispain camp was being investigated, it was mistakenly catego...

Carse Mote Tongland Near Kirkcudbright Dumfries and Galloway Carse Mote can be seen from the A711 at Tongland, about two miles No...

Motte of Urr Between Dalbeattie and Haugh of Urr Dumfries and Galloway Well...what is there to be said about this? It is truly the ...

Boreland Of Anwoth motte Green Tower Motte Gatehouse Of Fleet Dumfries and Galloway A confusing motte and bailey castle this one....mainly b...

Old Buittle Tower Near Dalbeattie Dumfries and Galloway This beautiful late sixteenth century tower can just be seen from the B794 as you tr...

Isle of Whithorn Castle Isle of Whithorn Dumfries and Galloway The Isle of Whithorn (not an island today) lays at the Southern tip of the Ma...

Auchenmalg Tower\House Auchenmalg Near Glenluce Dumfries and Galloway The tiny hamlet of Auchenmalg lies about four miles South of Glenluce ...

Tretower Castle Nr Crickhowell Powys Mid Wales Tretower Castle lays in the heart of the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales, some three mi...

Drummore Castle (fort) Near Kirkcudbright Dumfries and Galloway Scotland Not a castle as such I know, but worthy of its place on ...

Murray's Monument Minnigaff Dumfries and Galloway Scotland I thought I'd include this monument here seeing as it's so similar t...