Click here to see our lovely castle and to read about the plans for sprucing it up
Did you see the photo of our beautiful ruined castle? It was the first castle to be built by William the Conqueror. When I go there with students, I always spend a few minutes in the ruins of the chapel. People used to come here on pilgrimages because lots of healings happened in the chapel.
St Thomas Beckett was the dean of this collegiate chapel before his brutal murder at Canterbury Cathedral.
The chapel started to fall into ruin when Henry VIII had the lead removed from the roof.
I love our castle, and students enjoy wandering around it and taking in the audio-visual show. I can't see how the experience could be bettered, but the more people who are enticed onto the wonderful west Hill Cliff Lift to see the castle and then the caves, the better.
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