which to operate. This base should also be designed to afford protection to himself, his family and all those who lived on and worked his lands. The great magnates and many of the lesser barons would hold lands in different parts of the kingdom and require several bases. The landholdings of a knight, being much smaller, would usually be concentrated within a single locality and would require only one base. As Mediaeval government was frequently incapable of guaranteeing peace and order, such bases needed to be defensible. Thus the castle was born.
             The Norman conquest of England in 1066 introduced feudalism to England. We have already seen that castles were a feature of feudalism so it follows that the Normans introduced castles to England (Thompson 11). In fact, castles were the means by which William the Conqueror and his followers secured their hold on England following their victory over the English army at the battle of Hastings (Pounds 3). Immediately after Hastings, William ordered castles to be raised at Warwick, Nottingham, York, Lincoln, Cambridge and Huntingdon. The first rule of successful appropriation was to make sure of the territories they held, and they developed a castle. When Duke William landed at Pevensey, his first action was to build a temporary castle for himself in the remains of an old Roman fort. In the early stages of Norman Conquest, they built castles in existing towns. The purpose was not to protect the inhabitants of that center but to awe them
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