Maiden Castle or the Maiden's Castle may refer to:
Historical fortifications in England
''Maiden'' derives from the Celtic ''Mai Dun'' which means 'great hill'.
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Maiden Castle, Cheshire
Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hill fort, one of many fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age, but one of only seven in the county of Cheshire in northern England. The hill fort was probably occupied from it ...
, an Iron Age hill fort
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Maiden Castle, Cumbria
Verterae was a Roman fort in the modern-day village of Brough, Cumbria, England. Occupied between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, it protected a key Roman road in the north of England. In the 11th century, Brough Castle was built on part of the si ...
, a Roman fortlet
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Maiden Castle, Dorset
Maiden Castle is an British Iron Age, Iron Age hillfort southwest of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements Hillforts in Britain, constructed across Britain during the I ...
, an Iron Age hill fort
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Maiden Castle, Durham
Maiden Castle is an Iron Age promontory fort in Durham, England. It is listed as a scheduled monument.
Location
The Victoria County History describes the location of the fort as follows:
An earlier description gives more detail:
Althoug ...
, an Iron Age promontory fort
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Maiden Castle, North Yorkshire
Maiden Castle is a settlement in Grinton, North Yorkshire () which probably dates from the Iron Age. It is listed as a scheduled monument. The name Maiden Castle is not unique to the site and occurs in several other places in Britain and pro ...
, an Iron Age settlement
Historical fortifications in Scotland
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Maiden Castle, Fife
The Lomond Hills are a group of hills on the border of Fife and Kinross-shire in central Scotland, including East Lomond, West Lomond, and also Bishop Hill. At , West Lomond is the highest point in the Lomonds as well as the highest point in Fi ...
, an Iron Age fort
Other
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Maiden Castle (Antarctica)
The Allan Hills () are a group of hills, mainly ice free and about long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in the Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica.
Exploration and ...
, in the Allan Hills
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Maiden Castle (Iran)
Qal'eh Dokhtar, Ghale Dokhtar, Dokhtar Castle or Dezh Dokhtar (, "The Maiden Castle") is a castle made by Ardashir I, in present-day Fars, Iran, in 209 AD. It is located on a mountain slope near the Firouzabad-Kavar road.
Name
The name of the ...
, an alternative name for Ghal'eh Dokhtar in Iran
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Maiden Castle (novel)
''Maiden Castle'' by John Cowper Powys was first published in 1936 and is the last of Powys so-called Wessex novels, following ''Wolf Solent'' (1929), ''A Glastonbury Romance'' (1932), ''Weymouth Sands'' (1934). Powys was an admirer of Thomas Ha ...
, 1936 novel by English writer John Cowper Powys
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Maiden Castle sports centre
Maiden Castle sports centre, also known as the Graham Sports Centre and the Durham University Sport and Wellbeing Park, is the main sports complex at Durham University and the home for many of the Team Durham, university's teams. It also stages ...
, university sports complex in Durham, England
See also
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Maiden (disambiguation)
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Castle of the Maidens (), an alternative name for Edinburgh Castle in Scotland
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Mai-Dun
''Mai-Dun'' is an orchestral work composed in 1921 by John Ireland (18791962). He called it a symphonic rhapsody; another description might be tone poem. In 1931, he arranged it for piano four hands.
In British Celtic, "Mai-dun" means "grea ...
'', a symphonic rhapsody of 1921 by composer John Ireland
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