Deal was also a short train ride from Canterbury and on such a beautiful day the shore beckoned.
Deal Castle retains most of its original 16th-century structure, including a tall keep with six semi-circular bastions, 86 feet (26 m) across, at the centre, flanked by a further six rounded bastions, the western of which served as a gatehouse, surrounded by a moat and a curtain wall. The castle’s bastion walls are 15 feet (4.6 m) thick. It was larger than its sister castles at Walmer and Sandown, measuring approximately 234 by 216 feet (71 by 66 m) across and covering 0.85 acres (0.34 ha).
In the middle between Walmer Castle and the long gone Sandown Castle, they together gave this coast great protection
This Green man was on one of the buildings in Deal walking from the train station to Deal Castle.
Surrounded by a deep dry moat. Unlike the water-filled moats one thinks of, a dry moat is designed so that after gaining entry of the exterior walls the invaders are then trapped with fire coming down on them from the inner ramparts
The rounded walls would cause cannon shot to bounce off better than flat, square-edged walls.
Walking the interior halls was interesting!
A rubble beach looking out to a pier.
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