Dudley Castle

Dudley Castle is a destroyed fort in the town of Dudley, West Midlands, England. Initially a wooden motte and bailey mansion manufactured not long after the Norman Conquest, it was modified as a stone stronghold amid the twelfth century yet in this way crushed on the requests of King Henry II. Modifying of the manor occurred from the half of the 13^th century and finished in the development of a scope of structures inside the strongholds by John Dudley. The fortresses were sleighted by request of Parliament amid the English Civil War and the private structures demolished by flame in 1750.

In the 19^th and mid 20^th century the site was utilized for fetes and events. Today Dudley Zoo is situated in its grounds. The area, Castle Hill, is an outcrop of Wenlock Grouplimestone that was widely quarried amid the Industrial Revolution, and which now alongside Wren's Nest Hill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument as the best surviving stays of the limestone business in Dudley. It is additionally a Grade I recorded building. The Dudley Tunnel keeps running underneath Castle Hill, yet not simply the mansion.