The Oxford Castle - A Historical Jack of All Trades

On Saturday, I took a trip to the Oxford Castle - a place where kings and queens of England have called home but also a former prison! Used for many things, the castle is now open for all to see!

Location: 
Oxford, United Kingdom

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This is the view from the top of King George's Tower where lookouts used to be stationed to watch for intruders or, later on, escaping prisoners
This is the back half of the castle - the part that was built when the castle became a prison - and an outside view of the area that would have been cells for the prisoners
Here's another picture from the top of King George's Tower featuring one of the area's longest residents - a pigeon!
This is me at the top of the original castle tower (built in 1036 AD); I had to climb over 100 old spiral stairs to get here - they made me work for it
This corner of the crypt is said to be haunted by the ghosts of those who died in the castle when Britain was struggling with the Black Plague (Black Plague: an illness that killed about half of the British population in the 1300s)
This is the view from the top of King George's Tower where lookouts used to be stationed to watch for intruders or, later on, escaping prisoners
This is 'The Mound' - originally built to sustain the moat that surrounded the castle (moat: a body of water surrounding a building), which stopped intruders from being able to get to the castle, but now it just looks like a small hill
This is one of the long hallways where the prisoner's cells were; they held all types of prisoners here, from thieves to unruly students at the university

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