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Corfe Castle Village

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Corfe Castle Village
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Corfe Castle Village is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps stones and shadow still hold the shape of hands that built them. Maybe the village grew around that shape like a knot tightening. Imagine walking past rooms that never emptied, only waited.
A named place photographed at this map point in Dorset.
Corfe Castle was built by William Peverel in the 11th century, following the Norman Conquest, and later held by the influential de Courcy family. It is important as a well-preserved example of a motte-and-bailey castle and played a role in both the 12th-century civil war and the English Civil War.

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