Jephson Gardens, Royal Leamington Spa

Roughing It by Mark Twain

Now and then, as our position changed, rocky bastions swung out from the wall, a mimic ruin of castellated ramparts and crumbling towers clothed with mosses and hung with garlands of swaying vines, and as we moved on they swung back again and hid themselves once more in the foliage.

Upton House, Northamptonshire

King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

SPIRIT.

Let him shun castles: Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains Than where castles mounted stand. Have done, for more I hardly can endure.

Southwold, Suffolk