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castles: A fortified defensive building or structure. Strictly speaking, a castle was also a home, whereas a fort was purely defensive, but I have used castle for any fortified place. A castle may also have had a dungeon or donjon, a sort of prison for offenders and captured soldiers.
Synonyms: fort, keep, garrison

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Gate of St John’s Abbey, Colchester The British Isles (1905)

Built around the 1400s to help defend an Abbey that was even then some 300 years old, today the gate is open to the public.

English Heritage age for St John’s Abbey Gate

Keywords: castles, abbeys, gates, greyscale

Places shown: Colchester; Essex; England

Added: 2010-09-16

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Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

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