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Corfe Castle is not only one of our most beautiful castles, rising above its namesake village in Dorset, it has also featured dramatically throughout our history, as you can read here https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/dorset/corfe-castle/the-history-of-corfe-castle.

We are right proud of our heritage, which gives us so much, but we’re not always too hurried about looking after it. Corfe Castle is now the subject of a much needed and overdue, £2 million conservation project. (See here Under siege from nature: the National Trust’s £2 million plan to restore Corfe Castle – Country Life)

“….The National Trust has launched a £2 million conservation project at Corfe Castle, Dorset. Over the next three years, specialists will remove vegetation and restore the walls of the castle, which dates back to the 11th century, including its nine towers, keep and 26ft-high curtain wall. Most work will be carried out by specialists hanging from ropes high above the ground, particularly precarious as the castle is perched on a steep-sided hill rising 180ft above the valley….Amid this painstaking work, important lichens will be protected, as will the habitats of adders and lizards, and the homes of ravens and peregrine falcons, which nest in the highest parts of the ruins. A further £100,000 is needed to complete the work….”

You can read about the peregrines here https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8530695/Eleven-rare-peregrine-falcon-chicks-hatch-National-Trust-sites.html .

So, lasso your piggybanks, ladies and gentlemen. Corfe Castle needs more help.