Turret and tower

Taunton Castle these days is part hotel and part museum of Somerset. Here you see the square turret at one end and the top of the round tower at the other - and an awful lot of green between!

I also like the way the clouds look as it they’ve been hastily painted ...

The castle has a really interesting history, including a siege during the civil war;

"Taunton Castle had fallen into ruin by 1600 but it was repaired during the Civil War. Taunton had been captured by the Parliamentarian army under the Earl of Essex in June 1644 making it the only Parliamentary enclave in the South West of the country. After Essex's army was forced to surrender at Lostwithiel in Cornwall in September, the Royalists maintained a Siege of Taunton. From July 1644 to July 1645 Parliamentary forces commanded by Colonel Robert Blake were besieged by Royalist forces under Lord Goring,[6] although the town was briefly relieved by Sir William Waller in late November.[7][8] A relief column under Colonel Ralph Weldon made it to Taunton on 11 May, but the combined forces were still besieged. The two generals held out until help arrived on 14 June after the troops could be spared from the Battle of Naseby.[9]

It was in the Great Hall, in 1685, that Judge Jeffreys held the Bloody Assizes following the Monmouth Rebellion.[5] Of more than 500 supporters of James Monmouth brought before the court on 18 and 19 September, 144 were hanged and their remains displayed around the county to ensure people understood the fate of those who rebelled against the king.[5][10][11][12] “ Wikipedia