Crane Castle

Cliff castles are coastal promontories adapted as enclosures and fortified on the landward side by the construction of one or more ramparts accompanied by ditches. On the seaward side the precipitous cliffs of the promontory provided a natural defence, on

Crane Castle was built during the 12th or 13th century by a local lord, likely for coastal defense and control of the surrounding area. It is remembered as an example of a cliff castle, a rare and strategically significant type of medieval fortification in Britain.