title: Restoration: The Rebuilding of Windsor Castle
author: Adam Nicolson
description: Just over five years ago Windsor Castle was devastated by fire. In this book Nicolson charts the years since the fire through to the final rebuilding, including dealing with the fire, the finances of restoring the Castle and the decisions on whether simply to restore or make changes.
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  # Windsor Castle
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Edward Thomas
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
  
  
  THE STORY OF THE CASTLE
  
  
  WINDSOR FOREST AND PARK
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  Celebrated places make a strong and often a visual impression upon
  
  
  the mind before they are seen either in reality or in picture. Windsor
  
  
  Castle, especially from the west and at some little distance, is one of
  
  
  those which confirm and even augment, when first seen, the mysterious
  
  
  vision of the imagination. Seen from the flat meadows of Clewer on a
  
  
  moist morning, when thrushes are singing in the elms, Windsor Castle
  
  
  rises up like a cloud in the east, with nothing behind, or on either
  
  
  side of it, but a sky of dull silver, and nothing below but the smoke
  
  
  wreaths of the town gently and separately ascending. It is like a
  
  
  cloud, a huge soft cloud, without mot