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Hadleigh Castle was first built by Hubert de Burgh, the 1st Earl of Kent, who was a key supporter of King John. [4] De Burgh was given the honour of Rayleigh by John in 1215 as a reward for his services, but chose not to develop the existing caput of Rayleigh Castle, instead building a new fortification south of the town of Hadleigh. [4]
Hadleigh Castle is an oil painting by the English painter John Constable, created in 1829. John Constable visited Hadleigh Castle in 1814 and made a drawing of the castle. This he developed into a full-sized oil sketch in preparation for a finished painting, executed in 1829 and exhibited at the Royal Academy in the same year.
Hadleigh is home to several manufacturers, including Jim Lawrence Handcrafted Home Furnishings, [37] and the Hadleigh Maid chocolate company. [38] From November 2009 Hadleigh was the home of the Hellhound microbrewery; it moved to Bramford in June 2014 and ceased trading in June 2018. [39]
The park was formerly called Hadleigh Castle Country Park. The park was conceived in the 1930s but not created until the 1970s. [ 2 ] Hadleigh Castle is adjacent but separate and managed by English Heritage .
Hadleigh Bus Depot, one of the depots used by First Essex; Hadleigh Castle, a castle near Hadleigh, Essex; Hadleigh, Suffolk, a town in Suffolk Hadleigh Railway, a seven and a half mile long single-track railway branch-line from Bentley to Hadleigh, Suffolk (now closed) Hadleigh High School, a high school in Hadleigh, Suffolk
Hadleigh is a town and former civil parish, in the borough of Castle Point, in southeast Essex, England, on the A13 between Thundersley, Benfleet and Leigh-on-Sea with a population of 18,300. [1] It has a squared bypass to the north (the A127 'Southend Arterial Road' ).
Hadleigh Castle: Castle 13–14th century: Fragmentary remains [187] Hedingham Castle: Tower keep 1130–40: Substantially intact Castle demolished in the 17th century except for keep, well-preserved interior despite fire of 1954. [188] Walden Castle: Keep and bailey 12th century: Fragmentary remains Remains of keep. [189]
HMS Hadleigh Castle (K355) was a Castle-class corvette of Britain's Royal Navy.. Hadleigh Castle was the first ship to be fitted with a production version of the highly effective Squid anti-submarine mortar, the prototype of which had only been installed on board HMS Ambuscade in May 1943.