What is Corfe Castle?
{{coord|50|38|25|N|2|03|34|W|display=title}} [[File:Corfe (DrBob).jpg|thumb|Corfe Castle from the north]] [[File:Corfe castle village.jpg|thumb|Corfe castle village seen from the castle]] '''Corfe Castle''' is a small [[village]] and [[ruins|ruined]] [[castle]] dating back to the [[11th century]]. It is in a gap in the [[Purbeck Hills]], {{convert|5|mi}} south of [[Wareham, Dorset|Wareham]], in [[Dorset]], [[England]]. The oldest surviving structure on the castle site dates to the 11th century, although there are good reasons to suppose that there was a [[stronghold]] there before the [[Norman Conquest]]. [[Edward the Martyr]] was killed at the site on March 18, 978.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.pastscape.org.uk/monumentinfo.aspx?a=0&hob_id=456826 |title=Corfe Castle, Dorset: Excavation History |publisher=English Heritage |work=Pastscape |accessdate=2012-01-05}}</ref> The castle was [[siege|besieged]] in the [[English Civil War]]. After it was captured it was partly demolished ([[Slighting|slighted]]).<ref>{{Cite book|title=War in England 1642-1649|last=Donagan|first=Barbara|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2010|isbn=9780191614170|location=Oxford|pages=88}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == {{Commons category|Corfe Castle}} *[https://corfecastle.co.uk/ Corfe Castle Website] *[http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/corfe-castle/ Corfe Castle information at the National Trust] *[http://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/933.html Sources on Corfe Castle] {{UK-stub}} [[Category:Castles in England]] [[Category:11th-century buildings and structures]]