I'm American, but my mom is a Geordie. We always visited my aunt when we went to England and i thought her living right next to a castle was the coolest thing ever.
Weird, I was just looking yesterday at a trip to Richmond castle, getting incepted over here
I don't remember there being too much to do since the castle was in really rough shape last i visited. Some plaques to reads, walk around the grounds, climb up the keep and gaze at the countryside. I wouldn't plan a whole day around it, but it's a lovely way to kill a couple hours if you are gonna be in the area.
Oh yeah that's just how most English Heritage places are ๐ what you "do" is walk around, read the plaques, and climb up bits if you're allowed - sometimes there's even a roof!
Ha, i suppose. Some just have a lot more to see than others. Like i mentioned elsewhere in the thread i got to see most of the big ones for the North growing up like Lindisfarne, Bede's World, the Viking Museum, and a couple of the old Abbeys around York. Even hiked to an ancient stone circle in a sheep pasture in either the Lake District or Northumbria. Not as old, but the National Train Museum was awesome as well.
Now that i think about it, i spent way more time in Yorkshire than i thought!
Does she have a pseudo battlements feature going on with her wall?
It's been about 20 years since i visited, and my mom sent me the photo since she is visiting. All i can really remember is that her house is over 400 years old and the back garden runs right up to the castle wall. There is a walled off courtyard between the house and the street, so that might be the battlements.
Ah, so they might be actual battlements. Very nice.
Wonderful sight. I loved travelling the south coast of Brittain. We had some detours and it brought us to places just like this, taking us 100s of years back in history.
I live in a region in the south of the Netherlands that has a rich Roman history, near the center of the old Carolingian empire, we have quite some historic beautiful views as well.
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