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HISTORIC CASTLES & ABBEYS WE'VE SEEN

During our visits to Great Britain (England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland) in the past decades we have visited a great many of castles, ruins, abbeys, manor houses and other remnants of the past, be they in splendour or in ruins.

 




Index to the castles & abbey we've visited over the years
England 1982 Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire LINK
England 1982 Old Wardour Castle LINK
England 1983 Althrop [to be updated] & Roman villa @Littlecote LINK
England 1984 Burghley House [to be updated] & Donnington Castle LINK
England 1984 Avebury prehistoric stones & Kenilworth Castle same
England 1984 Sudeley Cas. & Warwick Cas. & Hampton Court Palace same
England & Wales '87 Bodiam Castle & Penshurst Place [to be updated] LINK
England & Wales '87 Hever Castle & Caldicot Castle & Chepstow Castle & Tretower same
England & Wales '87 Llanthony Priory & Castell Coch & Candleston Castle same
England 1991 Hedingham Castle & Belvoir Castle [to be updated] & Easby Abbey LINK
England 1991 Skipton Castle & Chatsworth House same
England 1997 Framlingham Castle & Oxburgh Hall & Hatfield House LINK
England & Wales 2000 Arundel Castle & Powis Castle & Harlech Castle & Dolbadarn Cas. LINK
England & Wales 2000 Caernarfon Castle &Conwy Castle & Stonehenge same
England 2003 Malmesbury Abbey LINK
England 2004 Winchester Cathedral & Wolvesey Castle & Bolsover Castle LINK
England 2004 Carisbrook Castle & Osborne House ([to be updated] same
Wales 2004 Chepstow Castle & Beaumaris Castle & Rhuddlan Castle same
Ireland, 2006 Askeaton Franciscan Friary & Bunratty Castle & Rock of Cashel & Blarney Castle LINK
England 2007 Rievaulx (a.k.a. Rivaulx) Abbey& Lincoln Cathedral LINK
Scotland 2011 Mary Queen of Scots' House (Jedburgh) & Jedburgh Abbey LINK
Scotland 2011 Royal Burgh of Linlithgow & Blackness Castle & Stirling Castle same
Scotland 2011 Cambuskenneth Abbey & Nat'l Wallace Mon. & Dunfermline Abbey same
Scotland 2011 Loch Leven Castle & Castle Campbell & Dunblane Cathedral same
Scotland 2011 Inchmahome Priory & Carmichael House same
England 2011 Lowther Castle & Fotheringhay Castle & Kenilworth Castle (2) LINK
England 2011 Nunney Castle & Winchester Castle & Hospital of St Cross same
England & Wales 2013 Richmond Castle & Pontefract Castle & Tretower Court and Castle LINK
England & Wales 2013 Tintern Abbey & Launceston Castle & Tintagel Castle same
England & Wales 2013 St. Michael's Mount & Sherborne Castle & Sherborne Abbey same
Scotland 2016 Tantallon Castle & Dirleton Castle & Craigmillar Castle & Elcho Castle LINK
Scotland 2016 Glamis Castle & Balmoral Castle & Elgin Cathedral & Urquhart Castle same
& The North 2016 Lindisfarne Castle same
Same Eilean Donan Castle & Dunvegan Castle & Castle Stalker & Dunstaff- LINK
Scotland 2016 -nage Castle & Melrose Abbey/ St. Mary's Abbey & Jedburgh Abbey same
Scotland 2016 Aydon Castle & Raby Castle (England) & Tynemouth Castle / Priory same
England 2017 Battle Abbey & Pevensey Castle & Herstmoncieux Cas. & Lewes Castle LINK
England 2017 Amberley Castle (hotel) & Waverley Abbey & Guildford Castle same
England 2017 Ely Cathedral & Anglesey Abbey & Kirby Hall & Clare Caste & LINK
England 2017 Orford Castle same
England 2018 Egglestone Abbey & Harewood House & Castle Rising & Castle Acre Priory LINK
England 2018 Walsingham Abbey & Binham Priory & Audley End House & Colchester Castle LINK
England 2019 Bury St. Edmunds Abbey & Barnard Castle & Easby Abby & Alnwick Castle LINK
England 2019 Edlingham Castle & Bamburgh Castle & same
Scotland 2019 Broughty Castle & Dunnottar Castle & Drum Castle & Castle Fraser LINK
Scotland 2019 Tolquhon Castle & Slains Castle & Knockhall Castle & Balvenie Castle same
England 2023 Lacock Abbey & Hever Castle & (continued..) LINK
England & Wales Caldicot Castle & Blaise Castle & Kidwelly Castle & Cardigan Castle LINK
... & Wales 2023 Raglan Castle & Castellnywedd / Newcastle & (Old) Wardour Castle same
England 2023 Hever Castle (2) & Bodiam Castle same
England 2024 Nottingham Castle (Museum) & Clifford's Tower & Scarborough Castle LINK
England 2024 Whitby Abbey & Prudhoe Castle same
     
 
MORE TO COME !
 
     
     
     
Note: On my Travel Index you'll find links to castles in France (Loire!), Italy & Denmark (a.o.).
Also, for 'London' (+ Glasgow, Edinburgh, York, et cetera) >>see that same link.
 
     
     

 

The links above lead to pages with numerous castles & abbeys; down here I copied a few as illustrations
England
1982: Broughton Castle

England
1983 - Althrop, home of Count & Countess Spencer, parents of Lady Diana.

Donnington Castle
1984 - Donnington Castle


1987- Penshurst Place

England
1991 - Easby Abbey

Travel through England 1997
1997 - Oxburgh Hall

Caernarfon Castle
2000 - Caernarfon Castle


2003 - Malmesbury Abbey


2004 - Carisbrook Castle


2007 - Rievaulx (a.k.a. Rivaulx) Abbey

Visit Scotland 2011
2011 - Blackness Castle

Tintagel Castle
2013 - Tintagel Castle

Lindisfarne, Holy Island, Northumberland
2016 - Lindisfarne Castle

England 2017
2017 - Herstmoncieux Castle

Our visit to England, 2018
2018 - Audley End House

Travels in England, 2019 - photography by Ruud Leeuw
2019 - Bamburgh Castle

England & Wales, 2023 - Ruud Leeuw
2023 - Lacock Abbey

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