taken 3 years ago, near to Clun, Shropshire, England
Clun Castle
The Great Tower on the left, with two flanking half-round towers to the right. The Great Tower was at least 28 metres (90 feet) high, and built in about 1300, it was deliberately designed to look like a Norman keep.
Clun Castle sits on a natural rocky mound in a loop of the river Clun.
It was founded shortly after the Norman Conquest, the castle and the nearby settlement prospered in the 13th century thanks to the management of the Fitzalan family. It was used as a hunting lodge in the 14th century, but was increasingly neglected, and by 1539 the castle was reported as ruinous.
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