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The stairwell in the South Tower at Stokesay Castle:

This is my final post from Stokesay Castle…..I have more, but I think it’s time to move on now. Enough already!!

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The interior of the South Tower at Stokesay Castle:

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The interiors at Stokesay Castle aren’t heavily furnished, but they do make for good photo opportunities:

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Stokesay Castle has some fantastic examples of wood panelling and wood carving:

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A few shots of the leaded windows at Stokesay Castle:

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Mrs S (aka Lizzy) taking a photograph in the doorway to the Great Hall at Stokesay Castle with the Elizabethan gate house in the background:

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The interior of the medieval Great Hall at Stokesay Castle:

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A few more shots from our recent visit to Stokesay Castle in Shropshire:

I couldn’t resist the opportunity to apply a tilt-shift lens effect in post-processing to the shot taken from the top of the South Tower looking down on the rest of the site.

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Following on from yesterdays post, here are a few shots of the magnificent timber-framed Elizabethan gatehouse at Stokesay Castle:

More from Stokesay to come tomorrow…

Stokesay Castle is, according to the English Heritage website, “…quite simply the finest and best preserved fortified medieval manor house in England”. To be honest it is pretty difficult to argue with that view, especially when you consider its idyllic location, nestled amongst the Shropshire hills close to the Welsh border.

Below is the first of a series of images I’ll be posting over the next few days of our recent-ish trip to Stokesay:

As you can see the light wasn’t great when we visited, with that all to familiar nondescript pale grey sky, but the beauty of the location and the fascinating collection of buildings more than made-up for that. It did mean I had to work quite creatively on the day to extract anything half decent from the flat light, but I enjoyed the challenge….I’ll leave it up to you over the next few days to see whether I succeeded.