Items matching castles taken from Old English Country Cottages (1906)

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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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Pictures from Old English Country Cottages, edited by Charles Holme [1848-1923], London Paris and New York, 1906

This book (and all that it contains) is out of copyright, because it was published jointly in the US and UK before 1923.

Guildford Castle, Surrey

Old English Country Cottages (1906)

the entrance to Guildford castle, Surrey One of the features of the Surrey cottage, indeed of all those counties where tile was the principal roofing material, is the skill with which the tiling is ad [...]

Keywords: castles, street scenes, buildings, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Guildford; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-21

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

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