Portchester castle

Looking down on Portchester Castle from the top of the medieval keep was very cold but well worth it for the view.
The outer wall date from Roman times and is one of the best preserved of their Saxon shore forts. Since then Portchester has been used as a military camp and staging post for the invasion of France by King Edward III and Henry V before Agincourt and as a military prison right up to the Napoleonic Wars. It's said to be haunted by ghostly monks, a soldier and white lady who has been seen walking the keep having fallen to her death. I didn't see any sign of her but maybe she will appear in my photo collection.
I had a nice cup of tea to warm up in the church tea rooms and one of the ladies there have some of us a free guided tour of the grounds and showed us the site of a possible crusader tomb. A fascinating place