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Bodiam Castle, East Sussex

One of the most perfect moated medieval castles in the land. The towers, reflected in the water, look as they would have done 600 years ago when Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, a knight of Edward II, rode up to his new home. Although the hundred years war was still raging and there was the threat of armed Frenchmen gliding up the waterways to Bodiam, the castle was designed as a style statement rather than a fortification. But its assertive looks discomforted Parliamentarians during the civil war and unhappily they gutted it to prevent it being used as a Royalist defence. Enough curling stone stairways remain, however, for modern-day adventurings along the battlements

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