Berry Pomeroy Castle
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Berry Pomeroy Castle consists of a Tudor mansion within the walls of an earlier castle. It is located halfway up a wooded hillside, looking over deep ravine and stream and situated in Berry Pomeroy, near Totnes, Devon, England (grid reference SX839623).
[edit] History
The earliest record was of a wooden fortification, given to the Pomeroy family for their participation in the Norman Invasion, and later passed to Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset who was Lord Protector during the reign of Edward VI. His son, also called Edward Seymour started to build the mansion in approximately 1560 and enlarged it in about 1600. It was abandoned by the Seymour family at the end of the 17th century, and had become the present ruin by 1730; this has been attributed to both weather damage, as well as salvaging of lead, wood and glass. Today the castle has a reputation of being haunted. It is a grade I listed building[1] and is administered by English Heritage.
[edit] References
- ^ Berry Pomeroy Castle. Images of England. Retrieved on May 9, 2006.
- Berry Pomeroy Castle information at English Heritage
- Ghosts Of The South West By Tony Ellis
- Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
