ARUNDEL
A more picture-perfect townscape would be hard to find. A medieval castle on the bend of a river, all romantic towers and turrets, dwarfs a toytown of black-and-white timber houses, with the verdant Arun Valley as a fairy-tale backdrop. Arundel is so perfect that it can seem almost unreal. Even its name somehow brings to mind an ancient, mythical stronghold – another Camelot.
The castle was founded on Christmas Day in 1067 by Roger de Montgomery, the first Earl of Arundel, one of William the Conqueror’s closest advisers. It is one of England’s longest-inhabited country houses, the seat and still the
