Warwick Castle

In early November we went to Warwick Castle about 45 minutes north of Croughton on the M40.

The first mention of a structure at this location was in 914. With Danish invaders threatening, Ethelfleda, daughter of Alfred the Great, orders the building of a 'burh' or an earthen rampart to protect the small hill top settlement of Warwick. In 1068, William the Conqueror built a motte and bailey fort on this location. In 1260 the castle as it looks now began to take shape. During the Civil War a royalist prisoners were placed in the dungeon and once scrached a note on the wall