Sandal Castle, Wakefield

[KelseyRebecca98]

Visited with bluebloodroyalbob other week and done my HDR again, starting to get in to it now! Anyway hope you like and abit of history

History

Sandal Castle is a ruined medieval castle in Sandal Magna, a suburb of the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, overlooking the River Calder. It was the site of royal intrigue, the opening of one of William Shakespeare's plays, and was the source for a common children's nursery rhyme.

The castles built by William the Conqueror's followers were self sufficient strongholds some of which were tax gathering points, some controlled the larger towns, river crossings or passes through hills. Two castles were built near Wakefield, one at Lowe Hill on the north bank of the Calder and Sandal on the south bank. The first castles were probably started and completed in the early 12th century by William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey after he had been granted the manor of Wakefield by Henry I.

Shakespeare's play Henry VI, Part 3 (Act 1, Scene 2) is set in Sandal Castle, it describes Richard's sons urging him to take the crown before news is brought of Margaret's approach. Act 1, scene 4 then depicts the death of Richard at the Queen's hands. This brief fictionalised account bears little resemblance to the history as we understand it today. The play is sometimes performed on the castle ruins.

The Battle of Wakefield is one of the candidates for the source of the nursery rhyme 'The Grand Old Duke of York', and the mnemonic for remembering the colours of the rainbow - Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain.

Big Sky by KelseyRebecca98, on Flickr


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Through the grass by KelseyRebecca98, on Flickr


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Thanks for stoppin' by

[Clough]

Uber good wish you'd stop taking epic photos thou making everyone look bad

[Canonite]

Quality. Look, you can see my house in the last pic.

[blueink]

Very nice Kelsey loving your pics

[BadBatz]

Uber good wish you'd stop taking epic photos thou making everyone look bad

Yep. I agree lol.

[ROYALBOB]

Bless, she gets it from her dad.lol

[KelseyRebecca98]

Bless, she gets it from her dad.lol

You wish! I had to show you how to use photomatrix

Uber good wish you'd stop taking epic photos thou making everyone look bad

Thanks

[Satsukisan]

Uber good wish you'd stop taking epic photos thou making everyone look bad

I concur, you are going to go onto mega things! You should try some landscape photography Id love to see the results x

[GeoVDUB]

Clough is right, epic photos! You make the rest of us look bad! My excuse is that my dad is rubbish at photography so I've not got it in my blood!

[SilentHill]

Very nice indeed. Never knew this existed