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Ashby de la Zouch Castle (Ashby-de-la-Zouch)
 Ashby de la Zouch Castle (Ashby-de-la-Zouch) ... Lord Hastings. The castle is an impressive ruin of a late medieval castle,Newest Review: ... this ruined attraction gave us. The audio tour made with local comic actors, whose banter was in the same vain as the "Men Behaving Badly" duo of Martin Clunes and Neil Morrissey, was both amusing and informative. There aren't any "rude" bits though, which makes it suitable for all the family. Visitors with a good imagination, like us, should enjoy this attraction with the ... more ... help of this impressive audio tour which gives plenty of information about how different parts of the building would have once looked, important events that happened there and the variety of notorious characters that visited the site during its...more |
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Ashby de la Zouch Castle (Ashby-de-la-Zouch): Take Your Imagination (664 words)
by - written on 20/02/09 (Very useful, 722 readings)
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Hubby and I went to Ashby-de-la-Zouche Castle because we were staying nearby on holiday. Our English Heritage annual membership tickets meant that we didn't have to pay any extra, so we thought we might as well have a quick look around this ruin, but we had a good couple of hours entertainment. *** History *** The first building on this site was a 12th century manor house, which was enlarged to a castle 300 hundred years later. Royal visitors that were entertained here include Henry VII, Mary Queen of Scots, James I and Charles I. During the Civil War this Royalist Castle was captured by the Parliamentarians in 1646. They then made sure ... Read the complete review
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