ウェストミッドランズ地域の洞窟・トップ20

歴史的な城を訪れてください。元々はモット・アンド・ベイリー様式でした。その後増築されています。マーシア女王エゼルフレダの像、バンドスタンド、花壇、そして城敷地内にあるスタッフォードシャー連隊の監視兵への追悼碑もご覧ください... コースをここから開始したい場合は、駐車場もあります。素敵なカフェや食事をする場所がたくさんあります。城敷地内カフェ、クリストファーズ・アット・ザ・ピール、ナンバー18コーヒーハウス、ブックヌック・アンド・ベーカリーをおすすめします。

A worthy addition to the National Trust. Wonderful house, set in Capability Brown's first landscape park.

Very nice view over the area

The area surrounding Castle Green offers picturesque views of the castle ruins and a greenery for visitors interested in England's rich history and architecture

The castle was founded after the Norman Conquest of 1066; with development through to the Tudor period. It has been described by the architectural historian Anthony Emery as "the finest surviving example of a semi-royal palace of the later middle ages, significant for its scale, form and quality of workmanship". Kenilworth played an important historical role: it was the subject of the six-month-long siege of Kenilworth in 1266, thought to be the longest siege in medieval English history, and formed a base for Lancastrian operations in the Wars of the Roses. Kenilworth was the scene of the removal of Edward II from the English throne, the perceived French insult to Henry V in 1414 of a gift of tennis balls (said by John Strecche to have prompted the campaign that led to the Battle of Agincourt), and the Earl of Leicester's lavish reception of Elizabeth I in 1575. It has been described as "one of two major castles in Britain which may be classified as water-castles or lake-fortresses...

Robert Langham (C16) - "The Castle has the name of Killingwoorth, but if truth grounded upon faithful story, Kenelwoorth [Kenilworth]. It stands in Warwickshire, a 74 mile North-West from London, and as it were in the navel of England, four mile somewhat South from Coventry a proper city, and a like distance from Warwick, a fair Shire town on the North. In air sweet and wholesome, raised on an easy-mounted hill, is set evenly coasted with the front straight into the East, has the tenants and town about it, that pleasantly shifts from dale to hill, sundry wherewith sweet springs burst forth; and is so plentiful and well sorted on every side into arable, meadow, pasture, wood, water, and good air, as it appears to have need of nothing that may pertain to living or pleasure."

Drop down and corner past a medieval castle. Pretty cool.

Reasonably easy walk and great view from tower that contributes mid journey to being refreshed.