PETER GINN: Castles dominated the landscape of the medieval age ... so it can keep the blacksmiths going. Almost everything we need to build a castle is just a stone's throw away.

An early-medieval castle in the Lake District ... home to three stone cottages, roaming deer, a tennis court and a bee keep. It includes a stretch of the River Eden along its boundaries, which ...

watchtowers and battlements have preserved the home’s medieval atmosphere. Stone-clad pathways, connecting fairy-tale-like courtyards, wind through the grounds of the castle, while its ...

Experts are to examine the impact of medieval climate change on a castle ... he had to besiege a new, stone-built castle constructed further inland and on higher ground. The site of the old ...

NARRATOR: Rooms in castles didn't have bare stone walls like the ruins we see today. They were covered with a layer of mortar, the medieval equivalent of plaster.Next, they were given a coat of ...