swap_horiz Beeston Castle Alternatives

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Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle stands as Britain’s oldest and largest occupied castle. Constructed initially by William the Conqueror fo...

England Medieval Royal Residence

9.7 Brilliant

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Dover Castle

Dover Castle is a medieval fortress in Kent, England, built up by Henry II in the 1180s and known for commanding the sho...

England Coastal Medieval Fortress

9.4 Excellent

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Bamburgh Castle

Bamburgh Castle is a coastal fortress in Northumberland, England, on the site of the Anglo-Saxon royal stronghold of Beb...

England Coastal Medieval Northumbria

9.3 Excellent

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Warwick Castle

Warwick Castle is a medieval castle in Warwickshire, England, founded by William the Conqueror in 1068 and later rebuilt...

England Medieval River Tourism

9.2 Excellent

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Wartburg Castle

Wartburg Castle is a medieval fortress in Thuringia, Germany, where Martin Luther translated the New Testament into Germ...

Germany Medieval Unesco Hilltop

9.2 Excellent

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Alnwick Castle

Alnwick Castle is a Northumberland castle and seat of the Percy family since 1309, noted as one of England's largest inh...

England Medieval Northumbria Ducal

9.0 Excellent

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Leeds Castle

Leeds Castle is a moated castle in Kent, England, associated with six medieval queens and rebuilt on islands in a lake f...

England Medieval Estate Moated

8.8 Great

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Kenilworth Castle

Kenilworth Castle is a ruined fortress in Warwickshire, England, expanded by John of Gaunt and transformed for Elizabeth...

England Medieval Elizabethan Ruin

8.8 Great

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Bodiam Castle

Bodiam Castle is a moated 14th-century castle in East Sussex, England, built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge during th...

England Medieval Moated Ruin

8.6 Great

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Arundel Castle

Arundel Castle is a restored medieval castle in West Sussex, England, founded in 1067 and long held by the Howard dukes...

England Medieval Gothic Ducal

8.6 Great

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Urquhart Castle

Urquhart Castle is a ruined fortress on Loch Ness in Scotland, notable for its role in medieval conflicts and its promin...

Scotland Medieval Ruin Lochness

8.6 Great

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Hohenwerfen Castle

Hohenwerfen Castle is an 11th-century Salzburg fortress in Austria, built for Archbishop Gebhard on a rock above the Sal...

Austria Medieval Hilltop Salzburg

8.6 Great

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Corfe Castle

Corfe Castle is a ruined Dorset fortress begun by William the Conqueror and destroyed by Parliamentarian forces after a...

England Norman Ruin Hilltop

8.4 Great

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Ludlow Castle

Ludlow Castle is a medieval fortress in Shropshire, England, founded after the Norman Conquest and later seat of the Cou...

England Medieval Ruin Marches

8.2 Great

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Framlingham Castle

Framlingham Castle is a 12th-century fortress in Suffolk, England, where Mary Tudor was proclaimed queen in 1553 after E...

England Medieval Curtain Wall Ruin

8.1 Great

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Warkworth Castle

Warkworth Castle is a medieval fortress in Northumberland, England, and was a major stronghold of the Percy family from...

England Medieval Ruin Percy

7.9 Good

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Goodrich Castle

Goodrich Castle is a medieval fortress in Herefordshire, England, known for its well-preserved 12th-century keep and Civ...

England Medieval Border Ruin

7.9 Good

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Scarborough Castle

Scarborough Castle is a medieval royal fortress in North Yorkshire, England, built on a headland and besieged several ti...

England Coastal Medieval Ruin

7.5 Good

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Middleham Castle

Middleham Castle is a ruined Yorkshire fortress where Richard III spent part of his youth and later ruled as Duke of Glo...

England Medieval Ruin Richard Iii

7.4 Good

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Pickering Castle

Pickering Castle is a motte-and-bailey castle in North Yorkshire, England, founded by William the Conqueror and later us...

England Medieval Ruin Motte

6.9 Fair