Castles and forts in Dorset
The Discover Alone map has 60 castles and forts in Dorset, England. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Woodsford Castle, DorsetCastle, fort or towerWoodsford Castle, Dorset is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps stones still stand where woods once…
Weatherby CastleArchaeological placeWeatherby Castle is an Iron Age hillfort on a Dorset chalk spur where double ramparts still throw long shadows across a…
Village of Corfe Castle from within the castleCastle, fort or towerVillage of Corfe Castle from within the castle is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps the stones…
The Rings: a ringwork and bailey and a Civil War battery 400m south west of Corfe CastleScheduled monumentThe Rings is a scheduled monument in Dorset, England, holding a ringwork, a bailey and a Civil War battery 400m south…
Small multivallate hillfort with outworks called Coney's CastleScheduled monumentConey's Castle is an Iron Age hillfort in Dorset where concentric banks and ditches still circle the hilltop. Its…
Sherborne Old CastleScheduled monumentSherborne Old Castle stands as a broken ring of stone where Bishop Roger built his fortified palace around 1130…
Sandsfoot CastleScheduled monumentSandsfoot Castle is a roofless Tudor fort built around 1541 to guard the Weymouth anchorage. Bastion earthworks…
Rufus CastleScheduled monumentRufus Castle stands on Portland as a late 15th-century octagonal tower with gun loops, rebuilt atop the site Robert…
Portland CastleScheduled monumentHenry VIII raised Portland Castle in 1540 to guard Weymouth Bay against French ships, forcing local men to carry heavy…
Penbury Hill Fort RampartCastle, fort or towerPenbury Hill Fort Rampart is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps soldiers marched the rampart until…
Maiden CastleScheduled monumentMaiden Castle is a scheduled monument in Dorset, England, where ancient earthworks still rise above the land. The…
Lulworth CastleScheduled monumentLulworth Castle is a fake fortress built by real men who wanted the shape of danger without paying its price. Thomas…
Long barrow, three bell barrows, fancy barrow and a linear earthwork 800m north of Maiden CastleScheduled monumentTen metres of buried ditch and a hundred metres of vanished mound still mark the long barrow that anchored a Bronze Age…
Horton Tower, DorsetCastle, fort or towerHorton Tower, Dorset is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps it stood as a watchful sentinel over the…
Flower's Barrow Hill FortCastle, fort or towerFlower's Barrow Hill Fort is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps soldiers stood watch on the hill while…
Earthwork on Castle HillScheduled monumentCastle Hill carries a medieval motte and bailey where a steep natural scarp was widened into a massive oval rise. The…
Corfe Castle Railway Station, Corfe Castle, DorsetCastle, fort or towerCorfe Castle Railway Station, Corfe Castle, Dorset is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps the station…
Castle HillArchaeological placeCastle Hill is a triangular earthwork at the western edge of Shaftesbury where a steep natural slope meets a broad cut…
Castle Hill, Cranborne, DorsetCastle, fort or towerCastle Hill, Cranborne, Dorset is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps a wooden tower rose above the…
Brenscombe Outdoor Centre, Corfe Castle, DorsetCastle, fort or towerBrenscombe Outdoor Centre, Corfe Castle, Dorset is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps children climbed…
Athelhampton HouseCastleAthelhampton House is a Tudor castle in Dorset built from 1485 for Sir William Martyn, whose descendants later divided…
Abbotsbury Castle Trig PointCastle, fort or towerAbbotsbury Castle Trig Point is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps the castle vanished long before the…
Abbotsbury CastleArchaeological placeAbbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age hillfort on Wears Hill in Dorset, England. Its triangular earthworks contain four and…
Nettlecombe Tout promontory fortCastle, fort or towerNettlecombe Tout promontory fort is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps people climbed the steep slope…
Sherborne Castle and LakeCastle, fort or towerSherborne Castle and Lake is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps the lake reflects a tower no longer…
Penbury Hill FortCastle, fort or towerPenbury Hill Fort is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps people climbed the hill to watch weather or…
Corfe Castle VillageCastle, fort or towerCorfe Castle Village is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps stones and shadow still hold the shape of…
Church in Corfe Castle VillageCastle, fort or towerChurch in Corfe Castle Village is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps stones struck together until…
Lambert's Castle: an Iron Age hillfort 425m west of Nash Farm, with a bowl barrow, and the sites of a post-medieval fair and a telegraph stationScheduled monumentLambert's Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 425m west of Nash Farm in Dorset, where a bowl barrow still marks the hill.…
Corfe Castle RuinsCastle, fort or towerCorfe Castle Ruins is a castle, fort or tower in Dorset, England. Perhaps stones still hold the shape of hands that…
Blacknor FortFortBlacknor Fort is shown as a fort on the public map of Dorset. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its…- Weatherby Castle, an Iron Age hillfort 1020m north west of Ashley Barn FarmScheduled monumentWeatherby Castle is a small multivallate Iron Age hillfort on a chalk spur in Dorset, built with two concentric…
- Wareham Town Walls and Castle RemainsArchaeological placeWareham Town Walls and Castle Remains still mark the edge of Dorset, though much of the stone has vanished into fields…
- Two bowl barrows on Mount Ararat, 865m and 910m north east of Stephen's CastleScheduled monumentTwo ancient burial mounds still stand on Mount Ararat, half a kilometre from Stephen's Castle. They are scheduled…
- Three bowl barrows on Milborne Down 520m and 585m north east of obelisk on Weatherby Castle hillfortScheduled monumentThree bowl barrows on Milborne Down stand as a scheduled monument, marking buried chambers where people placed what…
- The Castle hillfortScheduled monumentCastle Hill rises above Cattistock as one of Dorset's oldest defended places, its ridgeline still marking the boundary…
- Sturminster CastleScheduled monumentMud, muscle and fear built Sturminster Castle shortly after the Norman Conquest. A tall motte rises above the Dorset…
- Stephen's Castle, a bowl barrow 720m east of Eastworth FarmScheduled monumentStephen's Castle is a bowl barrow 720m east of Eastworth Farm in Dorset, England. It remains a scheduled monument…
- Slight univallate hillfort called Crawford CastleScheduled monumentCrawford Castle is a slight univallate hillfort in Dorset, recorded as a scheduled monument since 1999. Its single…
- Settlement remains N of Maiden CastleScheduled monumentMaiden Castle Road and its neighbours belong to Dorchester, where Roman buildings, field boundaries and quarry marks…
- Part of the defences of the Anglo-Saxon fortified centre of Wareham and part of the motte and bailey castle with shell keepScheduled monumentHalf a mile of stone and earth still circles Wareham, marking the largest Anglo-Saxon burh in Dorset. Inside that…
- Oval barrow on Pistle Down, 1010m north east of Stephen's CastleScheduled monumentDorset’s oval barrow stands as a scheduled monument on Pistle Down, marking an ancient burial or memorial that still…
- Motte and bailey castle 160m north of Castle Mill FarmScheduled monumentMotte and bailey castle 160m north of Castle Mill Farm stands in Powerstock, Dorset, scheduled since October 1924. A…
- Mohun Castle (site of)Scheduled monumentMohun Castle in Dorset is a scheduled monument, meaning the state recognises the remains as worthy of protection rather…
- Medieval fortified house at Castle HillScheduled monumentCastle Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset, still holds the triangular shadow of a private castle built without royal…
- Marshwood CastleScheduled monumentMarshwood Castle stands as a scheduled monument in Dorset, marked by a low mound and the ghost of a rectangular keep…
- Lulworth Castle North Lodges and park wallsScheduled monumentTwo triangular lodges dated 1785 still flank the main gateway, their rounded turrets and embattled parapets rising…
- Long barrow immediately north west of Maiden CastleScheduled monumentHalf a kilometre from Maiden Castle, the long barrow still holds its shape on a north east facing slope, a low ridge of…
- Late Saxon urban area E of Castle HillScheduled monumentCastle Hill still stands above Dorset, but the lost town east of it has vanished under soil and forgetting. Late Saxon…
- Hillfort and later strip lynchets on Dungeon Hill, 500m north of Castle Hill CottagesScheduled monumentHalf a kilometre north of Castle Hill Cottages, Dungeon Hill still carries the heavy shadow of an Iron Age hillfort…
- Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill, west and north west of Maiden CastleScheduled monumentHog Hill carries four ancient burial mounds not far west of Maiden Castle, marking a place where people died and memory…
- Four bowl barrows immediately north west of Maiden CastleScheduled monumentFour bowl barrows nestle north west of Maiden Castle, marking dead bodies buried before the great earthworks rose. They…
- Crawford CastleArchaeological placeCrawford Castle stands in ruins on the north bank of the River Clyde, guarding the Mennock Pass where Roman soldiers…
- Corfe Castle: a large enclosure castle, and 18th century Vineyard BridgeScheduled monumentCorfe Castle is a large Norman enclosure on a Dorset hilltop, rebuilt through the 12th and 13th centuries before…
- Chideock Castle: a moated site and associated features 520m south west of Chideock ManorScheduled monumentFive hundred and twenty metres south west of Chideock Manor, water still circles a castle hall in Dorset. The moat is…
- Castle mound (or Castle Hill)Scheduled monumentCastle mound in Dorset is a scheduled monument, meaning the state recognises the hill as worth protecting rather than…
- Bowl barrow 850m west of Weatherby Castle hillfortScheduled monumentPloughing and a nineteenth-century excavation cut through the mound, yet the buried quarry ditch and lost interior…
- Abbotsbury Castle (camp)Scheduled monumentAbbotsbury Castle (camp) is a scheduled monument in Dorset, England. The official record supplies its centre and…
- castle (remains)Archaeological placeCastle (remains) still marks Dorset though no intact tower stands beside the name. Stone, soil and memory have tangled…
- Round barrow cemetery immediately south east of Maiden CastleScheduled monumentFive hectares of chalk hold Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows where people died before Maiden Castle rose. The dead…