Culzean Castle: Robert Adam's Clifftop Masterpiece, Above the Firth of Clyde When the Kennedy family gave Culzean Castle to the National Trust for Scotland in 1945, they stipulated one condition: that the top-floor apartment be reserved, for as long as he wished...
Dunrobin Castle: The Fairy-Tale Château of the Northern Highlands, Above the Dornoch Firth The architect who redesigned Dunrobin Castle between 1835 and 1850 was Sir Charles Barry — the same man who was simultaneously working on the Palace of Westminster in London....
Urquhart Castle: Loch Ness's Greatest Ruin, Guarding the Waters Since the 5th Century From the top of the Grant Tower, the view is extraordinary: Loch Ness stretches away to the south-west, its dark water running for 23 miles through the Great Glen, the flanking...
Eilean Donan Castle: Where Three Lochs Meet at the Edge of the Scottish Highlands At the precise point where Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh converge in the western Highlands of Scotland, a small island rises from the water with a castle on it. The view from the...
Stirling Castle: Where Scotland's Destiny Was Decided, Above the River Forth In 1304, Edward I of England assembled the largest siege machine ever built — a trebuchet named the Warwolf — and used it against Stirling Castle. The garrison had already offered to...
Sudeley Castle: Where Henry VIII's Last Queen Rests, in the Heart of the Cotswolds Of all the ways that the Tudor age has left its mark on the English countryside, perhaps the most intimate is this: in the churchyard of the small, beautiful St Mary's Chapel...
Chillingham Castle: Britain's Most Haunted Fortress, Above the Cheviot Hills In the 600-acre park that surrounds Chillingham Castle, a herd of wild white cattle has roamed freely since the land was first enclosed in the 13th century. They have never been...
Tintagel Castle Cornwall | Everything You Need to Know On a headland of dark slate cliffs above the Atlantic, cut almost entirely from the mainland by erosion over two millennia, stand the ruins of a place that has attracted pilgrims of imagination for as long as...
Belvoir Castle: The Home of Afternoon Tea, the Belvoir Witches and the Dukes of Rutland The name is French — Belvoir, meaning "beautiful view" — but in England it has been pronounced "Beaver" for so long that no one argues the point. The beautiful...