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)

    “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)