Labels:beer mat | book | bulletin board | daily | tribute album OCR: LOWER BAILEY nly the most rich and powerful barons could to build castles and they planned them with great care They chose position they knew would be strategically important ir times of war and which in peacetime could serve as a tax -collecting office administrative centre, and law court Perhaps most important of all, the castle was built to be a family home so there had to be ample supplies of food and fuel nearby and within the castle walls, source of clean water to supply the defenders and their livestock during siege that