New Castle County, Delaware New Castle County Police and Emergency Medical Services Division Headquarters and the emergency communications center supporting 911 services. The present building opened in 2007 with a construction cost of . The Headquarters occupied a former elementary school building on the same site prior to erection of the current building. New Castle is a Democratic-leaning county. Because its population is almost double the combined population of Kent and Sussex, the winner in New Castle County has also won Delaware overall in each of the last seventeen presidential elections. In 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2016, the Republican candidate carried Kent and Sussex,
Donnington Castle outline the original layout of the demolished castle. The star-shaped earthworks added during the Civil War are still visible, surviving to a height of . Donnington Castle Donnington Castle is a ruined medieval castle, situated in the small village of Donnington, just north of the town of Newbury in the English county of Berkshire. It was founded by Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder in 1386 and was bought by Thomas Chaucer before the castle was taken under royal control during the Tudor period. During the First English Civil War the castle was held by the royalist Sir John Boys and