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Mawes Castle guards the eastern entrance to the estuary known as Carrick Roads.
It is the companion of Pendennis and exactly contemporary.
These two Henrician coastal forts offer some interesting contrasts.
In each a squat round tower is the chief feature, but instead of having a square residential block slapped on [...]

Robert, Count of Mortain and Earl of Cornwall probably founded Berkhansted Castle.
It was certainly held by him at the time of the Domesday survey.
As William I’s half-brother, Robert did well for himself out of the Norman Conquest, but his son made the mistake of supporting Robert of Normandy against Henry I.
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