"A walk round one of our local Castles!" Topic
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 Herkybird  | 10 Oct 2025 12:53 p.m. PST |
Yeh we are a bit spoiled in Northumberland!
I took a few pics of my trip there today, if anyone wants a look link
Enjoy! – I hope it helps someone painting model fortifications! |
| Perris0707 | 10 Oct 2025 8:04 p.m. PST |
Well, that was quite enjoyable! Not as much as actually being there, but close. Thank you much for sharing! |
 Dal Gavan | 11 Oct 2025 2:51 a.m. PST |
Thanks, Herk. I think that's the castle I saw from the train, on the way up to Edinburgh. Unfortunately that's as close as I got. |
 20thmaine | 11 Oct 2025 4:17 a.m. PST |
There are some interesting pillboxes quite nearby to the castle with non-standard construction. |
| IronDuke596 | 11 Oct 2025 5:30 a.m. PST |
Thank you for posting the link to the photos. |
| Shagnasty | 11 Oct 2025 8:58 a.m. PST |
An impressive site. Was this castle "slighted" by the Roundheads in their manic destructive tour of Britain? |
| Herkybird | 11 Oct 2025 2:27 p.m. PST |
English Heritage say: 'In the late 15th and 16th centuries, Dunstanburgh Castle was in decline. Too large and expensive to maintain, its decaying walls provided a tempting source of stone for other buildings, while its strategic weakness – lying too far from the Scottish border, and too distant from the main road – was all too apparent.' link Its generally a truism that Parliamentary forces used any well maintained defences. Poor Dunstanburgh suffered the fate of the Roman wall in getting its stone removed for building! |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 12 Oct 2025 12:51 p.m. PST |
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