Corfe Castle

"Corfe Castle. Seated upon an isolated chalk hill in the island of Purbeck, with a natural escarpment upon three sides where two rivers bifurcate on their way to Poole Harbour, and with a gentle slope upon the fourth side, the great castle of Corfe reared its massive front through many centuries of dramatic history, marked more than once with touches of the tragic. The remains of its cyclopean walls and towers now lie in mighty masses over its slopes, and tell eloquently of a day when destruction only seemed to occupy the minds of men, and all that was great and beautiful from the fore- going ages was marked out for desolation and ruin. Perhaps no castle in England has suffered so much as that of Corfe." Extract from "British Castles" (Open Library)

Corfe Castle is a National Trust property with free entry for National Trust members.

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