Farleigh Hungerford Castle





The outer wall


Farleigh Hungerford is a village in Somerset, England, 9 miles southeast
of Bath in the valley of the River Frome.

The Castle, which is now a ruin, played a significant part in the English
Civil War. There is some evidence of occupation during Roman times; the
foundations of a villa were excavated in a field just north west of the
castle in 1822.

Enclosed by a curtain wall with a cylindrical tower at each corner, the
squarish inner bailey contained a selection of domestic buildings. Today
only two of the towers and some sections of the curtain wall survive. The
south west tower stands almost to its full height of five storeys in
places, but the south east tower exists only a little more than its third
floor.
	
The Keep (big center stronghold)


Keep and Chapel


This impressed me, stone shakes


What it probably looked like


Ahhh, those doors!


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