{"id":318,"date":"2011-09-21T15:21:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=318"},"modified":"2011-09-21T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:21:19","slug":"totnes-castle-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Totnes Castle, Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>English Heritage.<\/em><br \/>\nThis was a classic Norman motte and bailey castle, founded soon after the Conquest to overawe the Saxon town. A later stone shell-keep crowns its steep mound, and gives sweeping views across the town rooftops to the River Dart. The shell-keep wall is in a fair state of preservation, as can be seen in stock photos.<br \/>\nApart from the view, there\u2019s not a large amount of things to look at, but the circular shell keep itself looks rather iconic. You\u2019d think that a castle on a high mound would be easy to spot, but if  I remember correctly I had a lot of difficulty finding it, because the crowded old buildings block any view of it from street level.  If you don\u2019t have any luck with brown signs, find a good street map and track it down with that.  The old centre of Totnes is not car-friendly so if you arrive by car it would be best to park it in a car park on the edge of the town centre and continue on foot.  When I was last there, it was possible to drive up the length of the old high street and under the building that spans the street, but I really wouldn\u2019t recommend it! Also, the exit from the top of the high street onto the ring road is hazardous, because of poor visibility and high-speed idiots.<br \/>\nOther EH castles are in the same area of South Devon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Heritage. This was a classic Norman motte and bailey castle, founded soon after the Conquest to overawe the Saxon town. A later stone shell-keep crowns its steep mound, and gives sweeping views across the town rooftops to the River Dart. The shell-keep wall is in a fair state of preservation, as can be seen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/?p=318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Totnes Castle, Devon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4,8,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daysoutblog.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}