Families can get stuck into medieval feast-inspired games and activities on the ‘Merry Medieval Christmas’ trail (£3 per ...

Located within acres of deer park, this medieval castle near Darlington ... the walled garden on our way to the castle entrance, where small Christmas trees line the path. In a courtyard area ...

Some writers wanted to write about ghosts and devils - and that's how the first Gothic novel came about. Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto on Christmas Eve 1764. It was so out-of-step ...

It was built by Duke Albrecht III in the area of the outer castle. The medieval building fabric and the late Gothic interior of the former court church can be seen almost completely in their old form.