Beeston Castle     In July we visited Beeston Castle which is an English Heritage site. It is a really excellent 11th century castle that dominates all the surrounding countryside and also has some woodland and caves to explore.           This is the view of the castle from our mooring, you can see why the location was chosen.   There is still quite a bit of the central castle remaining.             This is the castle wall that runs round the whole of the area that would have been the castle village.   The moat is quite deep, hewn out of solid rock.             There is a funky new bridge over the moat   From the top you can see all the way to Liverpool (our next stop)             One of the gate towers still stand.   But most of the inner castle is in ruins, so tourists can perch on top.             The woodland walk has a number of willow sculptures that peep out from the greenery.   And you can look back up to the castle to see the walls you won't scale.               Our mooring was very good, only sharing with one other quiet boat.