They had been built by the early invaders of Wales, the Norman Barons who originally arrived with William the Conqueror in the years after 1066. The very earliest Norman (or English) castles in ...

The towering castles that dot England’s landscape symbolize ... as monuments to the Norman elite who reshaped the country ...

Not long after, the Archbishop of York and earls Edwin and Morcar also submitted. England had finally accepted defeat. On Christmas Day 1066 ... motte and bailey castles began to spring up ...

Cainhoe Castle was built on a natural hill, mostly likely by Nigel d'Aubigny shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066. The trust said there was evidence of pre-Roman, Roman and Anglo-Saxon ...

Shortly after William the Conqueror's invasion of England in 1066 a castle was built on the grounds. It was occupied until the 16th century, but then fell into disrepair and was demolished towards ...