• Thumbnail for Ridge castle
    A ridge castle (German: Kammburg) was a medieval fortification built on a ridge or the crest of mountain or hill chain. It was one of several types of...
    2 KB (191 words) - 08:57, 10 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Castle
    Concentric castle Fortified house Hill castle Hillside castle Island castle Lowland castle Ridge castle Spur castle Toll castle Water castle Castle features:...
    112 KB (13,795 words) - 21:17, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pound Ridge, New York
    Connecticut, to the south, Bedford, New York, and North Castle to the west. In the early 17th century, Pound Ridge was inhabited by Native Americans who spoke the...
    31 KB (3,931 words) - 16:37, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hill castle
    castle (Gipfelburg), that stands on the summit of a hill with steep drops on all sides. A special type is the rock castle or Felsenburg. Ridge castle...
    4 KB (459 words) - 01:35, 11 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mow Cop Castle
    listed building on the National Heritage List for England. The ridge, upon which the castle sits, forms the boundary between the counties of Cheshire and...
    3 KB (339 words) - 13:03, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spur castle
    By contrast, a ridge castle is only protected by steep terrain on two sides. A spur castle was one of several types of hill castle. Depending on the...
    4 KB (510 words) - 14:28, 17 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Loki's Castle
    Loki's Castle is a field of five active hydrothermal vents in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, located at 73 degrees north on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Iceland...
    13 KB (1,317 words) - 07:43, 28 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Drumlanrig Castle
    name or to Scots *lang-rigg 'long ridge'. Drumlanrig Castle side on view looking at the right-hand side Drumlanrig Castle illustration in 1880 Original plan...
    9 KB (673 words) - 06:32, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Castellum
    Roman aqueduct or castellum aquae. It is the source of the English word "castle". Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary C. Julius Caesar...
    1 KB (90 words) - 00:48, 12 April 2024
  • Castleridge is a residential neighbourhood in the northeast quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is located east of the Calgary International Airport and is...
    6 KB (327 words) - 12:07, 19 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fortification
    Castle Bridge castle Cave castle Concentric castle Hill castle Hillside castle Hilltop castle Island castle Lowland castle Marsh castle Refuge castle...
    66 KB (7,733 words) - 17:23, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pillbox (military)
    Cave castle Hill castle Hillfort Hillside castle Hilltop castle Island castle Lowland castle Marsh castle Moated castle Promontory fort Ridge castle Rocca...
    11 KB (1,092 words) - 07:44, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ruthin Castle
    sandstone ridge overlooking the valley. Part of the ancient walls still remain and now form part of the Ruthin Castle Hotel. Ruthin Castle occupies a...
    5 KB (526 words) - 21:22, 15 February 2023
  • Haig and Gravenstafel Ridge. Castle Mountain Resort was opened in 1965. It was the site of the 1975 Canada Winter Games. "Castle Mountain Stats". Archived...
    3 KB (267 words) - 04:10, 14 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nuremberg Castle
    45778; 11.07583 Nuremberg Castle (German: Nürnberger Burg) is a group of medieval fortified buildings on a sandstone ridge dominating the historical center...
    23 KB (3,051 words) - 18:31, 10 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Nitt Witt Ridge
    Nitt Witt Ridge is a house on two and a half acres in the coastal city of Cambria, California, United States. Artist and recluse Arthur "Art" Harold Beal...
    5 KB (577 words) - 23:18, 1 January 2024
  • homes to go up as part of $2B Koa Ridge project". Hawaii News Now. Retrieved January 21, 2019. Castle & Cooke Castle & Cooke Hawaii Dole Food Company history...
    8 KB (747 words) - 23:57, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Castle Rock (Edinburgh)
    This means that the only readily accessible route to the castle lies to the east, where the ridge slopes more gently. The defensive advantage of such a site...
    3 KB (283 words) - 19:53, 3 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moydrum Castle
    Moydrum Castle (Irish: Caisleán Maigh Droma meaning "plain of the ridge") is a ruined castle situated in the locality of Moydrum, Ireland, just to the...
    8 KB (866 words) - 23:26, 10 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Larnach Castle
    Larnach Castle (also referred to as "Larnach's Castle") is a mock castle on the ridge of the Otago Peninsula within the limits of the city of Dunedin...
    13 KB (1,230 words) - 01:54, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sahyun Castle
    Sahyun Castle (Arabic: قلعة صهيون), also known as the Castle of Saladin (Arabic: قلعة صلاح الدين, romanized: Qal'at Salah al-Din), is a medieval castle in...
    14 KB (1,618 words) - 10:49, 30 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Neuschwanstein Castle
    Neuschwanstein Castle consists of several individual structures which were erected over a length of 150 metres on the top of a cliff ridge. The elongate...
    56 KB (6,733 words) - 13:42, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Burg Teck
    Burg Teck (redirect from Teck Castle)
    Kirchheim unter Teck (now in the district of Esslingen). The castle took its name from the Teckberg ridge, 2,544 feet (775 m) high, which it crowned. It was destroyed...
    3 KB (364 words) - 19:03, 4 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Martello tower
    the main island of Bermuda, and attacking vessels from slipping through Castle Harbour and the channel between Ferry Reach and Coney Island. The main channel...
    75 KB (7,758 words) - 08:38, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Conwy Castle
    World Heritage Site. The rectangular castle is built from local and imported stone and occupies a coastal ridge, originally overlooking an important crossing...
    36 KB (4,255 words) - 00:51, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kasugayama Castle
    Gassantoda Castle. The castle is unofficially called Hachigamine Castle (鉢ヶ峰城, Hachigamine-jō). Kasugayama Castle extended over two ridges on the summit of...
    7 KB (737 words) - 18:28, 26 July 2021
  • Koa Ridge is a town being developed by Castle & Cooke located near the center of the island of Oʻahu in City and County of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, United States...
    8 KB (434 words) - 16:29, 9 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mid Cheshire Ridge
    adorn the ridge from Woodhouse Hill and Helsby Hill in the north through Eddisbury and Kelsborrow Castle to Maiden Castle in the south. The ridge is traversed...
    6 KB (855 words) - 19:36, 12 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bank barrow
    Bank barrow (redirect from Ridge mound)
    A bank barrow, sometimes referred to as a barrow-bank, ridge barrow, or ridge mound, is a type of tumulus first identified by O.G.S. Crawford in 1938....
    3 KB (222 words) - 16:09, 27 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Purbeck Hills
    Purbeck Hills (redirect from Purbeck Ridge)
    Barrow Down. At Corfe Castle the hills are broken twice leaving a steep round hill between the ridges on which stood a medieval castle, guarding the only...
    4 KB (381 words) - 16:55, 3 February 2024