The Red King's Castle. Source of photograph: The Well-Beloved in the Anniversary Edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920, based in part on previous editions and the photographs of 1912. Facing p. 158.
The Red King's Castle may be Rufus Castle, or Bow-and-Arrow Castle, on the Isle of Portland. It is said to have been built by William Rufus. The remains of the castle stand three hundred feet above the water
[These remarks by the anonymous editors often seem to be based on Thomas Hardy's Wessex (1913) by Herman Lea -- PVA].
Hardy, Thomas. "The Wessex Novels II.-- Romances and Fantasies: The Well-Beloved & A Group of Noble Dames. Vol. XIII of The Anniversary Edition. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1912.
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