Bodiam (East Sussex) is a small village of less than 400 persons, situated by the River Rother. A railway was built to allow the transport of hops for beer making. Guinness, the brewers, owned some of the land in the area. Bodiam is probably most well-known for it’s picturesque quadrangular castle built towards the end of the 14th Century. Although the castle fits every tourists’ idea of a British fortification, there were many weaknesses in the structure, and it’s ability to withstand an attack were thought to be limited.
