Maiden Castle

Maiden Castle may refer to:

  • Maiden Castle, Cheshire, an Iron Age hill fort
  • Maiden Castle, Dorset, an Iron Age hill fort
  • Maiden Castle, Durham, an Iron Age promontory fort
  • Castellum Puellarum-Castle of the Maidens, an alternative name for Edinburgh Castle
  • Maiden Castle, North Yorkshire, an Iron Age settlement
  • Ghal'eh Dokhtar in Iran, also known as the Maiden's Castle

Famous quotes containing the words maiden and/or castle:

    “Then louder cry’d the Clerk Colvill,
    O sairer, sairer akes my head;
    And sairer, sairer ever will,
    The maiden crys, ‘till you be dead.”
    —Unknown. Clerk Colvill (l. 33–36)

    “Let me be at the place of the castle.
    Let the castle be within me.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)