Hastings. Hastings Castle was built as a pre-fabricated timber stockade almost as soon as William the Conqueror landed with his troops in September 1066.
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From the moment his army landed on English soil, the Conqueror embarked on a remarkable programme of castle-building...
Norman castles were designed for a different purpose, they were not defensive structures like the burhs close burhAn Anglo-Saxon fortified town., they were designed to intimidate the conquered Anglo-Saxons and remind them of Norman power.
1066 was a momentous year for England. The death of the elderly English king, Edward the Confessor, on 5 January set off a chain of events that would lead, on 14 October, to the Battle of Hastings. In the years that followed, the Normans had a profound impact on the country they had conquered.