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
Places Shown
Abergavenny; Monmouthshire; Wales
Bushmills; County Antrim; Ireland
Château Montjardin; Henumont; Remouchamps; Aywaille; Province de Liège; Belgium
Kelso; Roxburghshire; Scotland
Merthyr Tydvil; Glamorgan; Wales
Pottergate; Lincoln; Lincolnshire; England
Powys Castle; Welshpool; Powys; Wales
