Best Things Across The UK

Pembroke Castle: Where Henry VII Was Born, Above a Prehistoric Cave Beneath Pembroke Castle, in the limestone bedrock on which the fortress stands, there is a cave. Wogan Cavern is a prehistoric chamber that was occupied by early humans long before any castle existed...

Craigievar Castle: The Pink Tower That Danzig Willy Built, Rising Above Aberdeenshire William Forbes made his fortune trading with the Baltic port of Danzig — now Gdańsk in Poland — in the early years of the 17th century. So successful was his trade that he became...

Laugharne Castle: The "Brown as Owls" Fortress Where Dylan Thomas Found His Voice Dylan Thomas called it "the brown as owls castle" — a phrase that tells you as much about the poet's way of seeing as it does about the castle itself. Thomas...

Beaumaris Castle: The Most Perfect Fortress Never Finished, on the Isle of Anglesey In 1295, Master James of St George began designing the most geometrically perfect concentric castle in the history of medieval military architecture. The inner ward was rectangular,...

Edinburgh Castle: A Thousand Years Above the Capital, on Scotland's Volcanic Rock Castle Rock rises 130 metres above Edinburgh on a volcanic plug formed 350 million years ago — three sides sheer cliff, the fourth a long ridge descending to what became the Royal...

Conwy Castle: Eight Towers, Britain's Earliest Machicolations and a King in Hiding In 1399, King Richard II returned from Ireland to find his throne under threat from Henry Bolingbroke. He came to Conwy Castle — the massive fortress that Edward I had built in the...