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The gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe, writing in her journal, 1 September 1797.  Rochester Castle stands within the walls of the Roman city above the river Medway in Kent.  There has been an important crossing of the road to London since the first century AD, and it was the Normans - as they advanced across the country from the south coast, building strongholds from which to exert their power over the locals - who first built a wooden castle here after their victory at the Battle of Hastings.  Between 1087 and 1089 the castle was rebuilt in stone - one of the earliest such buildings in the country - by Gundulf, Bishop of Rochester, and in 1127 the recent keep was erected under Henry I, son of William the Conqueror.  Rochester Castle endured the great siege by King John in 1215, and some years later the siege of the barons rebelling against his son Henry III.  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