Construction workers at Kenilworth Castle in central England recently unearthed eight catapult stones that were fired during King Henry III’s 172-day siege of the fortress in the 13th century.

This English Heritage site is best known as the 1575 home of Robert Dudley, one of Queen Elizabeth I's favourites. Visitors can wander through the Elizabethan Garden, see the bejewelled aviary ...

Look out for…Charles I was the castle’s most famous resident but today the best-known modern residents are the much-loved Carisbrooke donkeys. Find out more here. Once the home of Richard III, ...