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Dogs allowed in certain areas shop. Disabled parking within castle, 100m from keep disabled visitors may use Palace Green car park next to keep to avoid steep path from Constable's Tower and cobbled drawbridge. Castle and grounds are mainly accessible, including keepyard, although there are some steep slopes requiring assistance. Ambulant disabled visitors may find access to the keep difficult due to long flight of spiral stairs. Hellfire Corner has good access for wheelchair users but entry is down a steep slope wheelchair routes and guides available. Braille guide and disabled orientation map available helping dogs welcome.
The Castle is dramatically located on the white cliffs overlooking the English Channel. Man and nature have combined to make this one of Western Europe's most impressive medieval fortresses. Its history is alive with reminders of a glorious past from the Iron Age to World war II.
The great medieval keep towers to 95 feet and has walls up to 21 feet thick. There is also a rare Roman lighthouse, the remarkably restored Saxon church of St Mary of Castro, and ancient earthworks and tunnels, dating back to 1216. These are part of the defences, modernised through
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- Landmark