The view from Corfe Castle

The ruins of Corfe Castle in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, rising up on a hill above the village of the same name, are some of the most familiar and most photographed monument their type in the country. The latest conservation work by the.National Trust and English Heritage is not only helping safeguard them for the future but is also meant that it is possible over the next year or so for visitors to ascend to rhe upper levels of the dominating keep, known as the King’s Tower, and to appreciate the view that would have been seen by King Henry I or King John amongst others.

The temporary viewing platform and some thing of the history of this great royal stronghold and grim prison, later held by Lady Margaret Beaufort, Sir Christopher Hatton and the Bankes family is reported upon by the Daily Telegraph at How you can visit Henry I’s castle ‘penthouse’ for first time since English Civil War and by the BBC News website at Corfe Castle's King's Tower opens for first time since 1646