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Europe’s ‘ugliest castle’ celebrates 1000 years | UK news | guardian.co.uk

Posted by on May 9, 2012

No beauty but excellent for keeping out Alex Salmond & Co. Carlisle castle. Photograph: Charlie Hedley

A new exhibition in Carlisle Castle’s Militia Store tells the near 1000 year story of the often battered castle – at various times a Norman castle, frontier fortress, administrative centre, royal palace and garrison.

Nearby is the Captain’s Tower, probably built by Henry II in the 1180s, and open to the public for the first time in 25 years.

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