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It passes Croft Castle and the Iron Age hill fort Croft Ambrey (not far from Wigmore and the initial seat of Mortimer power), and then passes through quiet Aymestrey. Near Aymestrey it passes through Puckhouse Wood, reputedly haunted by pucks or wood sprites. According to lore, a traveller lost in the wood at night paid a stipend for a bell to ...
Owned by the Croft family since 1085, the castle and estate passed out of their hands in the 18th century, before being repurchased by the family in 1923. In 1957 it was bequeathed to the National Trust. The castle is a Grade I listed building, and the estate is separately listed as Grade II*. The adjacent Church of St Michael is listed Grade I.
The Chaytor baronetcy, of Croft in the County of York and of Witton Castle in the County of Durham, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 30 September 1831 for William Chaytor, an industrialist and Whig politician who served as MP for Richmond in the first Reform Parliament. [1] He built Clervaux Castle on the manor of Croft.
Bircher Common is an area of lowland heath in the civil parish of Croft and Yarpole in Herefordshire, England, and 6 miles (10 km) north from Leominster. The common, owned by the National Trust , is adjacent at the west to Croft Castle , a further National Trust Property. [ 1 ]
York was a Viking capital in the 10th century, and continued as an important northern city in the 11th century. [6] In 1068, on William the Conqueror's first northern expedition after the Norman Conquest, [7] he built a number of castles across the north-east of England, including one at York. [7]
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In 1069 William the Conqueror dammed the Foss just south of York Castle, close to its confluence with the Ouse creating a moat around the castle. [2] It caused the river to flood further upstream in what is now the Hungate and Layerthorpe areas, forming a large lake that was known as the "King's Pool" or the "King's Fish Pond" and which ...
If you've ever dreamed of living in a castle with an easy commute to New York City, you're in luck. Located just over an hour north of midtown Manhattan, 249 Croton Dam Road in Ossining, New York ...