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:

    “This is the maiden all forlorn
    That milked the cow with the crumpled horn”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 22–23)

    “He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.”
    —14th-century French proverb, first recorded in English in A. Barclay, Gringore’s Castle of Labour (1506)