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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1818x1290, 282x200, 750x532, 909x645 | King’s College, CambridgeThe British Isles (1905) A watercolour painting of King’s College, by J. Fulleylove, R.I. Keywords: cambridge university, renaissance architecture, medieval architecture, paintings, people, spires, colour Places shown: Cambridge; Cambridgeshire; England Added: 2025-11-03 + S K L R N |
Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested | 1013x625, 2026x1250, 324x200, 750x463 | Criccieth CastleThe British Isles (1905) From the painting by Edwin Hayes, R.H.A. R.I. The first place of note you come to over the undulating road from Portmadoc is Criccieth, of which the demure aspect proclaims a watering-place of the be [...] Keywords: art, castles, water, views, towers, hills, ruins, colour, waves, storms, rocks Places shown: Criccieth; Eifionydd; Gwynedd; Wales Added: 2021-03-17 + S K L R N |
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285x200, 750x527, 916x643 | St. Peter Port, GuernseyThe British Isles (1905) From the painting by Edwin Hayes, R.H.A., R.I. A sailing boat is tossed about on heavy swell in the English Channel with the port, and a larger sailing ship, in the background, along with a small stea [...] Keywords: wavess, storms, boats, water, harbors, colour, art, sailing boats, ships, sails Places shown: St. Peter Port; Guernsey; Channel Islands Added: 2021-07-12 + S K L R N |
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![[p.242] The Bloody Tower](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/vol2-p242-The-Bloody-Tower/vol2-p242-The-Bloody-Tower-q50-195x200.jpg "[p.242] The Bloody Tower 1841")
