Whittington Castle

While Mrs TD started on her stitching, I did a tour of the local castles – just to get them out of the way, you understand. I started with Whittington, featured in the Blip, which started as an iron age motte and bailey two thousand years ago, but most of the remaining structure dates from 1220 when it was a large, impressive, moated stone castle and, by a hundred years later housed a stately home and gardens, where Eleanor and Fulk Fitzwarine lived, within the castle wall. All that remains of the house and garden is a flat topped earth mound that overlooks the site of the garden.
 
I moved on to Oswestry Castle; though nothing remains of it other than a very impressive hill surrounded closely by modern(ish) housing and a few rocks, it commands a view over the tops of the urban sprawl to the flat and featureless countryside beyond.
 
Finally, I went to the Old Oswestry Iron Age hill fort that was occupied from around 800 BC up until 43 AD and, 800 years later, it was incorporated in Wat’s Dyke which separated Mercia from the Welsh Kingdoms. It is one of the largest, impressive and best preserved such relic in Britain. The extra is a distant shot of the fort which made me wishing for a drone.

I've just posted yesterday's "Ironbridge."