Talk:Deddington Castle

Expansion...
I've gone through and expanded the article a bit. The photographs don't quite bring out the scale and shape of the earthworks; when the UK summer returns, I'll try to get across there and get some clearer ones, but if anyone lives near Deddington, and fancies taking a camera out with them in the meantime, I'd be very grateful! Hchc2009 (talk) 08:25, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Proposed changes.
I'm going to revamp the lead par, for quite important reasons. It's not true to say that Deddington Castle WAS a castle; officially, according to English Heritage, it still is. On the other hand, it quite clearly isn't. Many visitors turn up (sometimes having followed the signs, sometimes having made a special trip) and are disappointed or even angry to find that the site doesn't contain what they consider a castle. English Heritage won't change the name or the signs.

The article as it stands begins in the past tense, and then plunges straight into the history, only describing the site's present condition much later, and with a brief and not very helpful reference in the infobox. I propose to insert a new lead, describing the site as it is, before the historical background is explained. Hengistmate (talk) 12:01, 2 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Right. I've done that. Please study the new lead. Let's not have any knee-jerk reversions. It is important to stress the castle's current condition and put it in context. The lead now tells people what they will find, and the history can then be gone into. I've also removed some repetition brought about by the insertion of the new lead. Please feel free to improve .Hengistmate (talk) 17:46, 5 November 2018 (UTC)