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1992 Windsor Castle fire
The 1992 Windsor Castle fire broke out on 20 November 1992 in Windsor Castle's Private Chapel in Berkshire, England, destroying or damaging 115 rooms, including nine State Rooms.
Alnwick Castle
Alnwick Castle is a castle and ducal residence in Alnwick, Northumberland, England, held by the Percy family since 1309 and still occupied by the 12th Duke of Northumberland.
Arundel Castle
Arundel Castle, also known as Castle of Arundel, is a castle in Arundel, West Sussex, England, built in the 11th century by Roger de Montgomery.
Ashford Castle
Ashford Castle is a five-star castle hotel in Cong, County Mayo, Ireland, dating from 1228 and a Guinness family seat before becoming a hotel in 1939.
Balmoral Castle
Balmoral Castle is a large granite castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, built between 1853 and 1856, and the private summer residence of the British royal family, owned personally by the monarch.
Belvoir Castle
Belvoir Castle is a Grade I listed Gothic-style country house in Leicestershire, England, the hilltop seat of the Dukes of Rutland, rebuilt between 1801 and 1830.
Blarney Castle
Blarney Castle (Caisleán na Blarnan) is a medieval tower house near Cork, Ireland, built by the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry and home of the Blarney Stone.
Blarney Stone
The Blarney Stone, or Stone of Eloquence, is a limestone block in Blarney Castle near Cork, Ireland, said to grant eloquence to anyone who kisses it.
Bodiam Castle
Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex, England, built from 1385 by Sir Edward Dallingridge and owned by the National Trust since 1925.
Caernarfon Castle
Caernarfon Castle (Castell Caernarfon) is a medieval royal castle in Gwynedd, Wales, begun by Edward I in 1283 and the site of investitures of the Prince of Wales.
Cardiff Castle
Cardiff Castle (Castell Caerdydd) is a castle in central Cardiff, Wales, built within the walls of a Roman fort, with Norman, medieval, and lavish Victorian Gothic elements on one site.
Castle of Mey
The Castle of Mey, formerly Barrogill Castle, is a sixteenth-century castle on the north coast of Scotland in Caithness, bought and restored by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1952.
Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd
Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd: UNESCO World Heritage Site (1986) of Beaumaris, Conwy, Caernarfon, and Harlech castles plus Conwy and Caernarfon town walls, built for Edward I after 1283, largely by James of St George.
Castles in Scotland
Castles in Scotland, also known as Scottish castles, number up to 3,000, with around 750 substantially intact; the tower house dominated from the mid-1300s to the mid-1600s.
Classiebawn Castle
Classiebawn Castle is a Scottish Baronial country house built in 1874 on the Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo, Ireland, for Viscount Palmerston and later the summer home of Lord Louis Mountbatten.
Conwy Castle
Conwy Castle (Castell Conwy) is a medieval fortress in north Wales, built by Edward I between 1283 and 1287 and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Corfe Castle
Corfe Castle is a ruined royal castle at Corfe Castle village in Dorset, England, built by William the Conqueror and slighted by Parliamentary forces in 1646.
Derry city walls
The Derry city walls, also called the Walls of Derry, are a complete circuit of 17th-century fortifications in Derry, Northern Ireland, built 1613–1618 and famous for withstanding the 1689 siege.
Doune Castle
Doune Castle is a late 14th-century courtyard castle at Doune in Stirlingshire, Scotland, built for Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, who ruled Scotland as regent.
Dover Castle
Dover Castle is a medieval royal fortress in Kent, England, on the chalk cliffs above Dover, the largest castle in England by area, garrisoned continuously until 1958.
Dublin Castle
Dublin Castle is a government complex and major state ceremonial site in central Dublin, built from 1204 on the orders of King John of England on a former Viking settlement site.
Dunluce Castle
Dunluce Castle is a ruined medieval castle on a coastal cliff on the north Antrim coast of Northern Ireland, built around 1500 by the MacQuillans.
Dunnottar Castle
Dunnottar Castle, also known as Dunotter Castle, is a ruined cliff-top fortress in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, best known for hiding the Scottish crown jewels in 1651.
Dunrobin Castle
Dunrobin Castle, near Golspie in Sutherland, Scotland, is the historic seat of the Earls and Dukes of Sutherland, largely rebuilt by Sir Charles Barry in the 1840s.
Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh Castle, also known as the Castle of the Maidens, is a fortress on Castle Rock in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the country's most visited paid tourist attraction.
Fotheringhay Castle
Fotheringhay Castle was a castle at Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, birthplace of Richard III in 1452 and site of the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587.
Glamis Castle
Glamis Castle is a castle in Angus, Scotland, north of Dundee, the ancestral seat of the Earls of Strathmore since 1372 and childhood home of the Queen Mother.
Gwrych Castle
Gwrych Castle is a Grade I listed castellated country house near Abergele in Conwy, north Wales, built between the 1810s and 1822 by Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh.
Hever Castle
Hever Castle is a double-moated fortified manor in the Eden valley in Kent, a childhood home of Anne Boleyn, now a privately owned Grade I listed visitor attraction.
Inveraray Castle
Inveraray Castle, seat of the Dukes of Argyll and Clan Campbell on Loch Fyne, Scotland: Gothic Revival house begun 1744–46 by Roger Morris and the Adams, completed by Robert Mylne, rebuilt by Salvin after the 1877 fire, Category A listed visitor attraction.