Corfe Castle
A ruined hilltop castle in a gap in the Purbeck Hills, looked after by the National Trust and reached by steam train from Swanage.
From King's Cross St Pancras: 3 h 24 min by train · 3 h 27 min by car
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Time there: 1.5–2.5 h
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The castle has stood over the Isle of Purbeck for around a thousand years, built in the late 11th century on a natural hilltop.
Parliamentarian forces besieged it in the Civil War and then demolished it, leaving the ruins visitors climb today.
It is run by the National Trust, and the Swanage Railway stops at Corfe Castle station below it.
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