Dunluce Castle ruins

Castles and palaces

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Castle Howard.

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Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, Wales. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Geometric pavers, colourful doors and gingerbread trim on a pair of Victorian terrace houses

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View of Windsor Castle's East Terrace

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The ruins of Barnard Castle

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Miners work hard in cramped conditions at the pit face in Ellington Colliery, Northumberland, 1951 (Photo by Getty Images)

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Aerial view of Dover Castle

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The ruins of Dunluce Castle, which sit on the coastal cliffs of North Antrim in Northern Ireland. They are thought to have been the inspiration for CS Lewis’s castle Cair Paravel in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ (1950–56). (Photo by Andrea Ricordi/Contributor/Getty Images)

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Blenheim Palace in a c1880 print from ‘A Series of Picturesque Views of Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland’, edited by Reverend FO Morris, Volume I, William Mackenzie, London. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A statue of Robert the Bruce at Stirling Castle in Scotland. The castle "is in many ways like a bottleneck – so much of Scottish and British history passes through it and goes off to its eventual destination,” says Neil Oliver. (Photo by Iain Masterton via Getty Images)

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The entrance to Bodiam Castle. "If any castle conjures up the ‘romance’ of the mediaeval world, this is it," says Michael Smith. (Photo by Andrew Ray/LOOP IMAGES via Getty Images)

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The siege of Orleans

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Dover Castle, Kent. (Photo by Olaf Protze/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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18th-century snapshots of Windsor Castle

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

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A view of Lindisfarne Castle, where a former priory became a naval depot. (Getty Images)

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