Ten magical Great British Castles

*that you won’t believe AREN’T from Game of Thrones!

I was lucky enough to grow up at Castle Mill- the old mill of Chirk Castle in north Wales. This is where the obsession began, and you can see exactly why from this pic taken during a family Christmas walk one year.

Chirk Castle, north Wales

I am now lucky enough to have a job looking after castles all over Wales  and I get to explore some real gems all across Britain too.

These ten magical Great British Castles would make the producers of Harry Potter and Game of Thrones jealous.

And you may not have heard of all of them…

Caerlaverock Castle, Dumfries, Scotland

Castell Coch, Tongwynlais, south Wales

The Wallace Monument, Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland

Gwrych Castle, Abergele, north Wales

St Michael’s Mount, Cornwall, England

Dunnottar Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Lindisfarne Castle, Northumberland, England

Eilean Donan Castle, western Highlands, Scotland

Laugharne Castle, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Bodiam Castle, East Sussex, England

How many of these ten magical great British castles have you visited?