Colchester Castle, with its immense Norman keep — the largest in England — was a formidable prize. Its fall to Louis in 1216 gave him control of eastern England and seemed to confirm his path to conquest. The great keep survived intact and remains the largest Norman keep in Britain.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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