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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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LANGLEY CASTLE, a ruined, massive, baronial mansion in the SW of Northumberland; 2 miles S of Haydon-Bridge. The estate connected with it was held by the Tyndales, the Boltebys, the Lurcys, the Percys, and the Ratcliffes; was forfeited by the last Earl of Derwentwater; and belongs now to Greenwich hospital. The mansion is first mentioned in 1365; is described in a survey of 1416, as then in a state of ruin; and appears to remain now in nearly the same condition as then. It forms an oblong square, 82 feet by 25; has great projecting towers at the corners, 66 feet high; and presents an appearance remarkably little time-worn. Smelting mills, for lead and zinc ores, from mines on Alston Moor, are in the neighbourhood, and bear the name of Langley Mills.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a ruined, massive, baronial mansion" (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites") |
| Administrative units: | Northumberland AncC |
| Place: | Langley |
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