Corfe Castle The Square Wareham Dorset Corfe Castles location sandwiched on a hill in a gap between two other hill ranges made it almost impossible to attack As a result it was largely used as the Royal Treasury It was also famous for being the location of one of the few cases of known regicide in Britain on the th April the young King Edward was stabbed in the back as he mounted his horse whilst hunting in Purbeck he was buried without honours as he was clearly unpopular with the nobility yet his body was later exhumed and found to be untouched by decay As a result he was declared a saint and a martyr th August
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