Berkhamsted
I’m sure you all remember Thomas a Becket, the archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered in the cathedral by T S Eliot. This is the remains of his castle. It may not look like much now, but if he’d stayed in the Berkhamsted Castle instead of visiting the cathedral he would be alive to this day. Berkhamsted Castle was built by the Normans, and generally hacked about for a few hundred years until gunpowder made it obsolete, when it became…