Of Castles and Kings: Corfe Castle

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Above Corfe village sits the ruin of Corfe Castle. The Castle was constructed during William the Conqueror's reign as a way to manage travel through the Purbeck Hills. Before the construction of Corfe the area contained a fortress that predates the Normans and likely to have been used by the Romans.

Corfe is the site of some very early royal drama. In 975, it was at Corfe that Edward the Martyr, boy-king of Wessex, was murdered at the direction of his stepmother Aelfrida. She fancied the younger Aethelraed ("the Unready") should be the one on the throne.

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