Secrets of Kenilworth Castle | Hidden Details Most Visitors Walk Straight Past

Most people come here to admire the ruins, but hidden amongst these walls are clues most visitors never even notice. Because these stones still hide the secrets of England's longest siege and one man's extraordinary attempt to win the heart of a queen. Hi, my name's Kevin Hicks. Welcome to the History Squad. Now, we're on location right in the middle of my home county of Warwickshire in England at Kenilworth Castle. There she blows. 900 years of history, incredible siege, and one of the most famous Elizabethan love stories that you can imagine. A little bit of intrigue there. So we're going to go inside and have a look at Kenilworth Castle. Even before you get into the castle, you've got to get across this defensive ditch. And then just behind me, there was the gallery tower. There's nothing left of it now, just the one little bit of wall. And it houses the visitor center where you pay to come in. And then you're on to the tilt yard, the long stretch that leads to the castle itself. Quite something. So before you get to the castle, you have this long causeway. And what it was when they first built the castle, now we're talking to early medieval times here, they actually built this causeway along to dam a spring or a brook. So all over there, the mere actually grew up into a massive lake and it went all the way around the back of the castle and also onto the other side. And this still actually does flood occasionally. Now the Knights very quickly realized that they could actually joust along here. So it was widened, made more solid. And you imagine those Knights there, half a ton of horse thundering down here, smashing into each other. Must've been quite something. Well, come the Tudor times, you've got galleries made where people could sit stone walls and it was turned into a proper tilt yard. And that's what it's known as today. It's not known as the causeway. It's actually known as the tilt yard. Now, after the English civil war, the 1650s, they actually slighted the castle. The castle was actually pulled down to make it indefensible and they broke open the dam so that all of the mere and all of the lakes were drained. So it couldn't be used for defense. Sad really, but hey, it's history, isn't it? So I've come down from the tilt yard to the base of Mortimer's Tower. These have made or were built in the early 1200s. It's just to show you just how incredible these buildings were. Add another story to this. Link it all together to all of the walls, make them a lot taller. And then you can see how formidable this castle was. So as you can see, you know that they really are impressive, these outer defenses. But there's a little thing I'd like to show you. A lot of people miss this. We're going to walk along. This is a good position to see behind the tower there, the gatehouse where they pulled the wall down when they slighted the castle after the civil war. And I'll explain after the English civil war, the 1650s, castles that were a threat were actually slighted. In other words, they were made indefensible. They would leave the accommodation, but the actual outer walls, anywhere you could mount guns or cannons were destroyed. But what I'd like to show you here is this little door here. It's not a sally port. What this does is gives you access to the Mere, to the lake. The water came all the way up here and there were boats. So guests could go out onto the Mere, onto the lake and enjoy their visit to Kenilworth Castle. So Multimus Tower, I call it the gatehouse. Don't forget, you've got another level going all the way up. But interestingly, these great big pieces of stone are stops for a drawbridge. So there was a dry ditch that ran through here. So if you were attacking, you can come along the causeway. Yeah, that's great. But you've got to get across the drawbridge, which will be raised up. This tower, I tell you, was incredible. Come and have a look. You've got to imagine all of the walls complete. A portcullis, the gate that raises up and down was here. But come inside and have a look at this little hidden gem. As you come through, you can see the door jambs for these solid doors, the arrow slits. Now these arrow slits are tall enough for a bowman, a long bowman to shoot through. But this, you see, basically this was the front of the castle. Everything I've just shown you was an extension later on. But if you come in, you can actually see the original outer wall of the castle. This is it. This is the original outer wall of Kenilworth Castle. And you can see where it slopes away. So the water used to drain away down into the ditch. But they've added all of this stuff. Another arrow slit there. Big enough for a long bowman, but better for a crossbowman. And it's quite something. And apparently, this is one of the most haunted parts of the castle. Where we're standing now has been seen an apparition of a soldier walking out of this door. Ooh, makes the hairs go on your arm. So this would have been where the original massive castle doors would have been, covering this whole area. But further back, you have the grooves for an enormous portcullis. So just to show you, just this tumbledown bit of stone was actually quite a magnificent tower in its day. But what we're going to do, we're going to go down to have a look at some accommodation. Just to let you know, many of the houses in Kenilworth are actually built out of Kenilworth Castle. Because the stone wasn't just knocked down when the castle was slated. It was sold for quarry. But you can see here, incorporated within the castle walls, you have buildings. And we're just going to go over, have a look at a fireplace on the outside of the inside. So there's this fireplace and the chimney. It's all been dug out and sold many years ago. But there would have been some form of building against this. It's interesting, you've got lots of accommodation against the wall, inside the walls. You've got the water tower there, which is quite some principal accommodation. Then you can see the corbel on the top of the stone walls there. Those were for the operators. Remember, the walls were a lot higher. And those were for the support for the matriculations and the roofs that went over the battlements just here. So, a bit of accommodation here. So over on the other wall, you have a recess, simply for a cupboard. You have a resident pigeon in there, which I'll let you know, just made me jump. A fireplace. So you imagine then, back in the day, a roaring fire in there. Shut of the window during the winter. So this would have been quite a warm little bit of accommodation. What you do have is another room around the back, dual purpose. It has an arrow slit there. Well, I think actually that one's been changed to a musket loo. Hey, so a soldier can be here, crossbow, musket, whatever. He can shoot out. But I am certain by the shape of what is here, there was something else here. Yes, it was the privy. It would have had a nice boards across. It would have been dug down, would have emptied out into the outside of the castle, into the mirror. So we're going to go into quite an important little tower. It's the water tower. 14th century, Earl of Lancaster, I believe, built it. Let's go in and have a little look. And hopefully the pigeons won't make me jump. So you had a fireplace downstairs. You had arrow slits. Then you had quite a large window. I'm not sure if that was put in much later. But if you come over here and then have a look up there. Now, what you're looking at up there was some really good sumptuous accommodation, beautiful windows, lovely fireplace. This was actually for senior retainers, people of office who would live in the castle. So this is their accommodation. If you actually look up, unfortunately we can't go there, but you can see all of the great big puttlugs for the beams that went across for the floor. And then you can see up in the gallery there, the beautiful stonework that keeps the roof above. Because if you look high up, it's giving you an idea of how high this castle actually was. Because don't forget, we're in. Although we're in a building, we're in part of the curtain walls of the castle. Then upstairs through that door mirrors what's in here. And you might guess what's in here. There is a musket loop here. Would have been an arrow loop originally, but it's been made for guns later on. And of course, the most necessary of necessaries. Yes, it's the privy. There's an interesting thing I want you to show you. You see all of these little recesses, yeah? They're actually on two, three of the walls. And I was having a look and trying to figure out what they were, then I remembered. After the English Civil War, the castle was left pretty much in a ruined state. And it was documented that in 1748, these holes were cut into the walls of what had once been a beautiful chamber and the tower had simply become a pigeon house. It's an interesting reflection, isn't it? This was once sumptuous accommodation. For a retainer of some rank, but now this glorious castle is nothing more than accommodation for feral pigeons. 1553, John Dudley's stables. These were built for him. But there were stables on this site from the medieval period, the 1400s, I believe. It's incredible when you see that building, especially from the inside, the roof beams. They really are quite something. This was restored, by the way, in the 1970s because it was a bit tumbled down. And today it's a restaurant, a favorite of mine, actually. And I'm gonna have a scone and a cup of tea before we go and explore the rest of the castle. Next up is a round tower built as part of the castle defenses. And it dates back to around 1210, 1215, the time of King John, Lund's Tower. Way upstairs through here, but we're gonna go through the demolished part of the tower. And it is quite something inside. So there's lots of kind of anomalies in here, bits missing. But if you look, you can see the floor level of the first floor and then the second story up above. But there's a corbel here and it matches a corbel on this wall. And what that would have been for would have been a wooden supporting arch beam for the ceiling. So you had sumptuous chambers upstairs. You can still see the fireplaces. There's one on the first level and then another one on the second level. And then above these, you had the battlements. Now the way to get to these chambers and battlements was up the stairs in a turret over there, which was built on the outside of the tower. You can just about see the stone vaulted ceiling right at the top of the staircase. So it really was, although it was a corner defense, the eastern corner of the castle, it was also a major accommodation tower. But there's something quite interesting for me. Full length arrow slits. And there's another one over here. And they really do give you quite a tremendous arc of fire. But it's this anomaly here. What is it? This hole in the wall. Great big lintel, stone lintel above it. Dressed stone here. Something used to be in there and I've been racking my brains. We've had a little bit of a disagreement. I thought, is it a cupboard? Is it a recess or something? Because there's another one over yonder. And I think I found the solution. Follow me. So if you look on the other side, there is an arrow slit. You see the ground floor was originally equipped with five fishtailed arrow loops. There's only two remaining now. The others, like this one, have been blocked up. We're going to go now into Lord Leicester's gatehouse. It was built in the 1570s by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to impress the woman he was desperate to marry. Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth I. Originally, it was his grand new entrance to Kenilworth Castle, designed to say, this castle is fit for a queen. But later, it was converted into a grand home. So we're going to head inside and take a look around. Right, we're in the oak room of the gatehouse. This gatehouse built in the Tudor times. But what I love about this, this is where the carriages used to come through. But a Colonel Hawksworth was given this as part of his payment for his duties to the Army of Parliament during the Civil War. And he repurposed it. Look at this fireplace. Yeah, right loyal. Yeah, Robert Leicester. You look at the intricate carvings. Something about this enormous screen, the whole thing comes apart. You can actually see some of the joints even today. But also this fireplace here. It's been removed from one part of the castle and replaced here. The sheer weight of everything upon it now. You can see where it's broken through this beautiful marble. I just love it. But what really blows my mind is this is where the wagons and the carriages came through the gatehouse. This was the gateway archway. But Colonel Hawksworth, he actually converted it into his front room. And what I'll do in a wee while, I will show you where he had that window taken from, brought over from the castle and fixed into place here. So 1650, Colonel Hawksworth receives this as payment, this castle. So he takes just above that window there, two sections and has it replacing and filling in the gateway to the gatehouse, turning it into a house and thus preserving those windows. Recycling. They did it all those years ago. Amazing. So we're going to go into the original part of the castle, the Great Tower, 1120, built by Geoffrey de Clinton. But before you go in, you've got to have a look. The outer defenses were here. There was none of the other walls that you see there now. So there's a big ditch through here and there was a bridge that went across just here. Now, I'm not sure if there was part of an old wooden drawbridge or whether it was just a collapsible bridge if the castle was under attack. What I do know, come the great visit of 1575, Queen Elizabeth I, good Queen Bess. Ah, she would have come across this bridge in a great procession and it was totally decorated with all different kinds of gods and things like that. There used to be a clock right at the top of the tower. You can just see one, two, three, four, five, six peg holes where the clock was attached to the tower. And apparently at two o'clock as she entered the tower, the clock was stopped. Now that's probably for a reason she would lose track of time because she was here for 19 days. One of her longest visits ever. So in the medieval times, this was not an open space. This was part of the front curtain wall. Solid castle wall went across. You can see the remains of the guard room in here. The way into the castle was along the pathway here and through an archway. But there's a little piece I love here. This is part of the original paving. Solid stone. What I love about it, look at the grooves that have been worn through by the wagon wheels. To me, that's just lovely. So 1120, Geoffrey de Clinton builds the great tower. He goes as far up as where the arrow loops are positioned. The rest of it was built by King John 1210-15. But what makes those arrow loops quite unique really is they're called fishtail. And if you look at the bottom of the arrow loops, that enables a crossbowman to literally lean into the arrow loop and shoot straight down. And the windows just below it, they're not medieval. Those are from the Tudor times. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 1570-71. He had windows put in all the way around so that the light would shine into the great hall and he could use it for entertainment. So there's so much of the castle missing, obviously, when it was slighted and ruined after the Civil War. But the four building there, the entrance, if you look above, you can see how high up it went and where it was joined. And in the far corner, you can see the height of the actual wall that came across to finish off the four building. They had to reconstruct a lot of this. I think it was the late Victorians had to do it. It was starting to collapse. So we're going to go inside. We're going to have a look. And when we're finished, we're going to have a look at the castle kitchens, one of my favorite places. Right, we're inside the four building, garrison accommodation, but it's been robbed. The doorway has been taken out, been used somewhere else. And if you come in and have a look, you can see to what extent this room has been gutted out. But if you look up, it gives you an idea of the structure upstairs. You have your arrow slits. You have your corridors that went right the way up into the top of the building there. So this building would have been one, two, three, four, five stories high from down here. So we're looking up through what used to be the ceiling of the four buildings. And we're looking at the Norman arches there from the top of the great tower, which we'll see inside. But this is an excellent angle for you to see the fishtail arrow slits. Right, if you look here, you can see this was the outside wall of the castle. It comes straight down. Then you have the steps for the water to flow away. So this must have been added on later. So much has changed. Yeah, once again, you've got the outside of the castle coming down. There is so much that changes. It's amazing. Let's go inside and have a look. So the wall was taken down when the castle was slighted after the Civil War. But look at the thickness of those walls. Five meters, if I remember correctly. That's incredible. But it gives you a cross section of the corner towers. But then as you pan up, you can see the windows that were put in by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. So upstairs was actually the great hall and it would then have had lots and lots of light. And so he could use it for entertainment. Down here, this is storage. So fill in these great arches, right? Yes, they would have been small openings for you to have a little bit of light. But this was a storage area and there's a hidden little bit, one of the little secrets of the castle in the far corner. So this is one of the little secrets. People will see this, but because it's been filled in, it's not that easy to realize what it is. It's a well and the shaft goes all the way up. So everybody on every floor could drop the bucket down and get fresh water from the internal water supply of Kenilworth Castle. Because of this water supply, this castle could withstand the longest siege in English history. But I'll come to that story a bit later. So if you look up there, you're actually up at the fighting level, the piece added by King John. And you can just see the archways behind each of those fishtail arrow slits. So the castle even went further up than that because you had the battlements on the top. So you look at the little fireplace there, it does seem a little bit out of place, but we're missing an entire floor. We don't know how it was divided up, where the corridors went, where the accommodation was. And the main fireplaces would have literally been on this side. They're literally long gone and no records of them. If you look at those puttlugs, they're actually not really puttlugs. That's where corbels, the stones that used to protrude out of there have been chiseled out. And on top of those, there would have been the wooden beams going up to form the great oak arches that went across the great hall. But of course, we're missing it on this side. So you imagine those arches going across. So it would have been pretty much a bit of a faulted ceiling. You know, the men who slighted these castles 1650 and onwards after the civil war, they weren't just gangs of thugs. You could come to the castle and say, can I purchase that doorway please? Yes, certainly. You need to bring your own gang, remove it, or you could have the gang on site and then you pay your money. They would take the facing stones called ashlar, the polished stone, and they would remove it very carefully. But when it comes to the infill, they would undermine it and collapse it down. But they wanted to make sure that every usable piece, reusable, was taken care of. Every fireplace, every nook, every cranny that you could make money from, the timbers, the corbels, the glass, everything would be removed. And then it would leave what we call simply the shell or the skeleton of a once mighty castle, garrisoned nowadays by the pigeons. We're heading to the great kitchens next. These are some of the largest medieval kitchens I've ever seen. 66 feet or 19 meters and eight and a half meters wide. And although it's a ruin, you can still see evidence of what was here through the floor plan and what remains of the walls. Imagine this enormous kitchen space. Part of the ceiling would have been open or the roof open for ventilation. But you come over here and have a look what evidence is left. There were steps up here. On top here would be a great cauldron or a copper where they could boil up the great pottage stews. The fire was in the bottom. And wherever you see these tiles that have been put in horizontally, this is a fireplace. And if you look, it extends all the way over here. Right, so you've got a great old fire going here. You're going to be cooking stuff. But hang on, there's an oven in there. So they're going to be baking bread in there. But this end of the kitchen, I know for sure, this was for the staff and for the garrison. This is where your bread and your rough pottage was cooked. However, you look at this arrangement. This used to be an enormous fireplace. In fact, you can see that's the inside of the chimney. It's still slightly black. So this is a kitchen complex where you've got a baker's oven, where you've got the copper or the cauldron bubbling away. And you can see so much of it has gone. And there was a great big chimney here covering this whole area. The same again and again and again. And interestingly, this is the outside wall of the castle. You want a kitchen with so many fires, build it away from the main accommodation. Otherwise you might just burn it down. But look at the size of this. You imagine the great chimneys going up, the heat coming from here. And here you have a drainage channel running virtually the full length of the kitchen. So all the fat and all the scraps and slush, they all go into there. It can be flushed out and then it disappears down a hole. But where did it go? I'm going to show you the other end. There's the draining channel over there. And if you see, it's in line here. So this is for drainage. All the filth will be come out of here. It can be dug out. So there we have the medieval kitchens. But for the castle people, the big cauldrons of pottage stew, the big loaves of bread, haunches of venison and that kind of stuff. Well, that's maybe. But here we have the kitchens of the Lord and Master, John of Gaunt himself. But let's go into John of Gaunt's kitchen, shall we? This was just one massive bread and pie oven. I love it. You imagine the smells of this kitchen, the aroma of the food, the cooking meat. And when they had the pies, I actually have a pie that has its beginnings at the time of John of Gaunt. This is an English pork pie. And I am just going to cut a tiny, tiny little piece and just taste that succulent pork inside. Oh God, yeah, that's great. We don't get these in Canada. But I'll tell you now, I am paying homage to the cooks, to the chefs who worked so hard in these places to feed the garrison and the noble Lord. Bon appetite. So from the kitchens, we're going to go down into the cellars. These are enormous just for storing the food. So we're in the cellars, John of Gaunt. So 1370s, he built the strong tower above us. And every floor has these vaulted stone ceilings, the cellars then above and above. This literally was for storing the food. So we've come up the steps now and we'll level to the entrance of the great hall where there's the most wonderful view of the kitchen complex. So you imagine all of that kitchen complex working away. There's a banquet in the great hall here. Food is brought up the steps through the pantry and buttery here. This is where the wine supply and the beer was kept. Then through this door, there will be a screen screening this off from the guests. And they would walk out and go through the wooden screen into John of Gaunt's great hall. If you want to look at the scale of the windows, if you look at the bottom of the windows, there's a bench seat where people used to sit. You imagine a person sat there, then look at the height of those windows and look at the stonework that's missing out of the center there. You can just see where a lot of it used to go. So here we are in the cellars. Now you've really got to look to try and figure out how fantastic these cellars were. For a start off, there are 10 of these bases here. Pillars rested on. Each one of them, there are 10 flutes that go up and then spread out into these arches. So if you marry this one here, there was a double arch that went across and then into the middle of the ceiling from there to there. I've actually counted 18 of these pieces in this cellar alone, holding up the floor of the great hall above. The floor of this building of the great hall was solid stone. Credit comes down. When you think of the incredible weight of that great hall floor bearing down on these cellars, no wonder you had all of these vaulted arches. I think it was 18 that I actually counted. This, what a shame it was slighted. What a shame it was destroyed because, wow, this must have been one incredible building. Just unbelievable, really. Then look at the size of the fireplace. That's one of six. So you've got one massive fireplace there, another one over yonder. But then just above your head there was a series of three fireplaces that were interconnected, went up with their chimneys to the top there, all lost to time. So music playing upstairs, the aroma of the food coming from the kitchens and then, gosh, those incredible windows. Not only that, it's the roof and you've got to really look hard now. If you look just to the left of the fireplace and to the right of the window there, you follow those two lovely beveled pieces of stone to the top. In fact, if you look on that side, you can see them further up. You can see the recesses where the great oak beams went across and met in the middle to hold up the roof. It must have been incredible sight to see. So where we're standing now, you're actually at the ground level, if you like, or the floor level to the great hall. So we will be next to the three great fireplaces. The high table would be here and just across there, the remains of a protruding bay window, which is where John of Gaunt may have privately dined and that's where it's believed the sixth fireplace was. But there's nothing left of it now. And if you want to see some grandeur of stonework, just have a look around here. Quite something, eh? With all the grandeur that we've had inside the lovely great hall there and the cellars, we have a bit of a reality check. A sally port, a door to the outer bailey. Port Cullis used to run all the way up and down. But now if we go up this mound, you'll see a real taste of war. So come the onset of cannons, castles were becoming a little bit obsolete. Cannonballs can go through the window, smash the walls. So they built earthworks around them. It's called a sconce and along the edge, you would have gabions, great big baskets filled with stone. And then you put your cannons on here. You can get three guns on here and look at your arc of fire. There's nothing could come close to the castle. You would be able to see it and fire upon it. So we have the outer bailey here. You see the castle outer wall there. See the thickness? You can see where it's been reduced so it's not been used as a defence. But interestingly, there are fireplaces all the way round. The one over yonder, you can see where they've removed part of the chimney. You also have access down into the mere there, to the boats that used to be there. Buildings, wooden buildings, half timbered would be against these walls. Maybe your craftsmen, your stonemasons, your carpenters actually lived here with their families. Perhaps further around, you might've had the smithy hammering away. This was just one great big, I suppose, industrial park around the castle. Well, the water gate here was very important. Supplies being brought in across the mere from the farms over yonder could be brought in by boat, offloaded here straight up through the door that we've just come through from the John of Gaunt's great tower there. 200 people lived here, apparently. Lodged and lived and worked. Merchants and craftsmen did their business here. So we have the medieval bit. You can see all the arrow slits. You move along. This is the state apartments from John of Gaunt's great hall. Then as you come along, Robert Dudley, 1571, 72, had some private apartments built for Queen Elizabeth I's visit. He really did fancy himself with the queen. Indeed, she was his favorite. Now you can see there's a triangular piece just out there. That, so I was informed, was the platform or the base for a veranda that Queen Elizabeth I could look over the mere when she visited. So Robert Dudley, for the queen's first visit, has had that built, but he's got a bit of a problem. His first wife, Amy Robsart, 1560, died mysteriously. Fell down the stairs, some say. Her neck was broken at the bottom of the steps. Society thought this was a bit dodgy, so he'd lost his chance, shall we say, with Elizabeth I. So in July, 1575, he's already had built an extension to the private chambers. So much so, it extends outside of the castle battlements, the castle curtain wall. And just look at that for a building. Just to impress the queen. He was hoping to land her hand in marriage. Outside on the mere, she'd come back from hunting and outside on the mere, just as if by magic, fireworks. And then a giant whale floats by with musicians and all these kind of things. But the fact is, it was all for naught. He failed. But just look at that for a building. Completely hollowed out when the castle was slighted. Every beam, door and glass window was sold. For quarry. It is interesting what you find, isn't it? This looks like to me, it's an outlet from a garderobe, a toilet. So somewhere up there in the tower, they would poop away and down here it would come. I suppose there should be a little blue plaque here, shouldn't there? Elizabeth I pooped here. Hey, that will be something to see. Now, as I mentioned, Leicester's building here was built by Robert Dudley to impress Queen Elizabeth I. With only the shell left, it really is hard to envisage what would have been like in Elizabeth's time. With only the ghosts of fireplaces, doorways and carvings that remain. But the illustration here shows you how some of the rooms may have looked. They were absolutely sumptuous. No expense was spared. There was even a dancing chamber here because apparently the Queen loved to dance. And the huge glazed windows, which were some of the largest in the country at the time and would have flooded the rooms with light and given the Queen sweeping views over the mere and the parkland beyond. And it wasn't just the building he created. Dudley also created a whole privy garden for the Queen, complete with a marble fountain and an aviary full of exotic birds. During a 1575 visit, he laid on fireworks, pageants and lavish entertainment, all to try and win her over. Now another famous story that was set at Kenilworth Castle has to be the Great Siege. It was in 1266 that Kenilworth suffered one of the longest, hardest sieges of any castle in England. It all came about after the death of Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Eversham. His eldest son, young Simon, had promised the King, Henry III, the castle to be surrendered. But others had a different opinion about this. It was on the 21st of June 1266 that the siege actually began. The commander was Sir Henry de Hastings and what had happened was the King sent a messenger to the castle. Surrender! But the messenger returned having had his hand severed. Oh, you imagine that? The King was furious and for six months, he hammered away at this castle. Great trebuchets, lobsters weighing 300 pounds. That's 140 kilograms. They managed to damage buildings around the outer bailey. But with the water defences keeping the enemy back, they couldn't even undermine the castle. So the King sent for barges from Cheshire and tried to attack the castle across the water, but it all failed. What actually happened was they surrendered on the 14th of December due to disease and starvation. But they surrendered on great terms. You see, the King, Henry III, had actually held a parliament during the siege in Kenilworth where they had the dictum of Kenilworth promising that if the garrison surrendered and they paid a hefty fine, they could get their lands back. The longest siege of any castle in England took place here at Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire. I hope you enjoyed the video here at Kenilworth Castle. You know, we've been here all day and there's still parts that I haven't been able to show you. But if you enjoyed the video, like, share and subscribe. And if you'd like to support the channel further, why not have a look at joining our Patreon community? The link, it's in the description. 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