Some facts about castles

• The word castle is derived from the Latin word castellum which is a diminutive of the word castrum, meaning "fortified place".
• Castles had their origins in the 9th and 10th centuries.
• From the eighteenth century onwards, there was a renewed interest in castles with the construction of mock castles, part of a romantic revival of Gothic architecture, but they had no military purpose.
• Framlingham Castle was built under a Saxon cemetery.
• The first castles were built by the Normans
• The great age of castles began almost a thousand years ago and lasted for nearly 500 years.
• Castles were also developed to defend key part of the countryside such as a mountain pass or river estuary, and often made use of the natural geography to support the defensive walls through exploitation of cliffs, rivers, hills, and the like.
• A Castles ability to survive a long siege often depended on how much food they could stash within their walls.
• Each country in Europe developed its own architectural designs copying from that of the castles in other countries.