Maiden Castle
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'.
- Maiden Castle, Cheshire, an Iron Age hill fort
- Maiden Castle, Cumbria, a Roman fortlet
- Maiden Castle, Dorset, an Iron Age hill fort
- Maiden Castle, Durham, an Iron Age promontory fort
- Maiden Castle, North Yorkshire, an Iron Age settlement
Other
- Maiden Castle (Iran), an alternative name for Ghal'eh Dokhtar in Iran
- Maiden Castle (novel), 1936 novel by English writer John Cowper Powys
- Maiden Castle sports centre, university sports complex in Durham, England
See also
- Maiden (disambiguation)
- Castle of the Maidens (Latin: Castellum Puellarum), an alternative name for Edinburgh Castle in Scotland
- Mai-Dun, a symphonic rhapsody of 1921 by composer John Ireland
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