Hastings Castle (pictured above) is a keep and bailey castle ruin, and open to the public. The castle is classed as a Grade I listed building and as a Scheduled Monument. The ruins are the remains of a stone fortress (built after William of Normandy's coronation) which was practically impregnable from three sides. Less than half of the original structure remains.

 

The castle is reputedly haunted, with people reporting the apparition of a woman in a brown-hooded cloak on the hill below the castle. Sometimes, the spectre is carrying a baby. Coxe states that Thomas a Becket has been sighted here on Autumn evenings.

 

According to Brooks, the castle itself has been seen as an apparition over the sea. However, instead of its current appearance, it appears as it once looked in all its magnificence. He also reports audible phenomena of clanking chains, groans and screams, as well as the "music of an unearthly choir".