Bolsover: Chesterfield, England

Number 15 - Bolsover Castle

Ah! Bolsover.

Now we have a slight confession about this. We hadn't planned to visit it, but kept seeing signs so we just thought we couldn't ignore them any more, if a castle was within our reach, we had to go. So we shot off the motorway and followed the brown castle signs.

However when we got there we realised it was HUGE and would probably take all day to get around. We just didn't have time. We were on a trip to stay in a castle in Durham and had a schedule of other castles to call in at on the way up. We were in a real quandry. Plus it was raining.

We walked round the outside and could see it looked impressive but decided not to go in. We've counted it anyway, as some of the castle ruins we do end up just standing by, but in the future we hope to make it back up there again to walk round.

Our apologies to English Heritage, who we're sure make it look very lovely for visitors. Apparently there are painted ceilings and everything!

It was built in the 1630s but must have had substantial work done to it as it still looked in great condition.... from the outside.

We did pop to the town to get a packed lunch for the car journey. Nothing exciting, just some hoola hoops.

Costs: £9.50

Hints and tips: ...go in

If you want to read about castles we actually did explore, check out my blog.