Castle Acre Bailey Gate is the still surviving north gate of the medieval fortified village of Castle Acre, in the English county of Norfolk.
The Bailey Gate is now in the care of English Heritage, along with the nearby Castle Acre Castle and Castle Acre Priory.
Famous quotes containing the words castle, acre, bailey and/or gate:
“If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men’s failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal’s natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, anything.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.”
—David Bailey (b. 1938)
“What was dancing to you then?
We went from the high gate away
To a black hill the other side of men
Where one wild stag stared
At the going day.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)