Castle Cornet

Cornet Rock or Castle Rock is a small subsidiary island of Guernsey, an island in the English Channel off the Normandy coast that is part of the Guernsey Bailiwick, a British Crown Dependency. The former tidal island was first fortified with a castle between 1206 and 1256 during the course of the division of the Duchy of Normandy in 1204. In 1338 the island was besieged and conquered by a French force, and the English garrison...