Natural History Wildlife at Nunney Castle, Somerset 25 May 2018 Ian Alexander Nunney Castle, Somerset. It was besieged and intentionally ruined by Cromwell’s parliamentary forces in the English Civil War. Hornet drinking in moat of Nunney Castle. The moat had plenty of tadpoles and smooth newts. Nunney Castle from the south-west Large Red Damselfly on lichened stone beside the moat Wall Rue Spleenwort, a plant of old undisturbed walls, at Nunney Castle